Morphological Awareness and Reading Difficulties in Adolescent Spanish-Speaking Language Minority Learners and Their Classmates

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-53

  Kieffer, Michael J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; English language learners; language minority learners; morphological awareness; reading difficulties

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; READING;

AWARENESS; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; READING;

EID: 84889680881     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219413509968     Document Type: Article

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