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Rachel Schiff; Shani Levy-Shimon; Lior Oanunu Shashoua; Ayelet Sasson – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2025
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a multi-component homograph processing intervention complemented by Executive Function (EF) skills on the performance of struggling readers. The researchers focused on measuring improvements in literacy, metalinguistic abilities, cognitive/EF skills acquired during the intervention, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties
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Galit Ben-Zvi; Hadass Landau; Dorit Ravid – First Language, 2025
We investigate the development of text reconstruction abilities in Hebrew-speaking children, with a particular focus on verbal passive constructions. The acquisition of verbal passives in Hebrew is a late developmental milestone, closely tied to the expression of event semantics. The current study explores how narrative and informative text genres…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Native Language, Language Acquisition, Semantics
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Ferman, Sara; Shmuel, Sapir Amira; Zaltz, Yael – Language Learning and Development, 2022
The acquisition of a new morphological rule can be influenced by numerous factors, including the type of feedback provided during learning. The present study aimed to test the effect of different feedback types on children's ability to learn and generalize an artificial morphological rule (AMR). Two groups of eight-year-olds learned to judge and…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Learning Processes
Lane, Sylvia – 1981
This paper examines the aspects of teaching the structural and semantic functions of the article in English. Writing samples from native Chinese- Japanese- Korean- Spanish- Farsi- French- Hebrew- Greek- Bengali- and Arabic-speaking ESL students illustrate the problems that exist in understanding the use of the determiner. Students are not aware of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Determiners (Languages)