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Stavans, Anat – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
This paper explores the role that languages and literacy practices play in Ethiopian immigrant families transposed to Israel as part of Israel's family language policy, by examining parental perspectives on their respective L1 and L2 usages, in both parents' and children's lives, as well as by examining the home literacy provisions supporting…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Immigrants, Language Usage, Language Attitudes
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Malcolm, Diane – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
Skilled readers are often characterized as more metacognitively aware than less skilled readers. This questionnaire study of 160 students at a medical university in Bahrain compared reported academic reading strategy use of readers at varying initial English proficiency level and year of study. While all students reported high use of strategies…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Medical Students, Reading Strategies, Measures (Individuals)