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Schnoor, Birger; Usanova, Irina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Writing, as a highly complex strategic literacy skill alongside reading, is an essential prerequisite for learning and determines a student's educational success. In diverse contexts, a student's linguistic repertoire may involve multiple languages, which may serve as mutual resources in his or her multilingual writing skill development. Drawing…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Academic Achievement, Writing Skills, Skill Development
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Berendes, Karin; Wagner, Wolfgang; Meurers, Detmar; Trautwein, Ulrich – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Silent reading is the primary mode of reading for proficient readers, and therefore, silent reading fluency is often assessed in research and practice. However, little is known about the validity of the tests administered to students with different language backgrounds. Given that academic language is assumed to be especially challenging for…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Language Usage, German
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van Viersen, Sietske; de Bree, Elise H.; Kalee, Lilian; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; de Jong, Peter F. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
A few studies suggest that gifted children with dyslexia have better literacy skills than averagely intelligent children with dyslexia. This finding aligns with the hypothesis that giftedness-related factors provide compensation for poor reading. The present study investigated whether, as in the native language (NL), the level of foreign language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction, Spelling Instruction