How Many U.S. High School Students Have a Foreign Language Reading "Disability"? Reading Without Meaning and the Simple View.

In this study, a random sample of U.S. high school students completing first-, second-, and third-year Spanish courses were administered standardized measures of Spanish word decoding and reading comprehension, compared with monolingual Spanish readers from first to eleventh grades, and classified into reader types according to the simple view of reading. The majority of students fit the hyperlexic profile, and no participants fit the good reader profile until they were compared with first- and second-grade monolingual Spanish readers. Findings call into question the practice of diagnosing an FL "disability" before a student engages in FL study. PMID: 28380307 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28380307?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Learning Disabilities - April 1, 2017 Category: Disability Authors: Sparks RL, Luebbers J Tags: J Learn Disabil Source Type: research