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Reed, Deborah K.; Petscher, Yaacov; Foorman, Barbara R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
This study examined the contributions of vocabulary and spelling to the reading comprehension of students in grades 6-10 who were and were not classified as English language learners. Results indicate that vocabulary accounted for greater between-grade differences and unique variance (?R[superscript 2] = 0.11-0.31) in comprehension as compared to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Spelling, Reading Comprehension, Grade 6
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Wilcox, Kristen Campbell; Yagelski, Robert; Yu, Fang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study examined the nature and frequency of error in high school native English speaker (L1) and English learner (L2) writing. Four main research questions were addressed: Are there significant differences in students' error rates in English language arts (ELA) and social studies? Do the most common errors made by students differ in ELA…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, High School Students, English Language Learners, Language Arts
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Allaith, Zainab A.; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of some aspects of the Arabic phonological system on spelling English words. In Study 1, the spelling performance of Arabic students from grades four and six was compared with English students in cognate phoneme pairs which exist across both languages (/d/ and /t/), and pairs in which…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Spelling, Phonemes, Phonology