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

Conventional wisdom suggests that students classified as learning disabled will exhibit difficulties with foreign language (FL) learning, but evidence has not supported a relationship between FL learning problems and learning disabilities. The simple view of reading model posits that reading compreh...

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Published in:Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 194 - 209
Main Authors: Sparks, Richard L., Luebbers, Julie
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Mar/Apr2018
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          Sparks, Richard L.
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          Reading Disorders
          Students, High School United States
          Language
          Reading Evaluation
          Human
          United States
          Random Sample
          Comparative Studies
          Spain
          Male
          Female
          Descriptive Statistics
          Adolescence
          Vocabulary
          Dyslexia
          Coding
          Language Tests
          P-Value
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Conventional wisdom suggests that students classified as learning disabled will exhibit difficulties with foreign language (FL) learning, but evidence has not supported a relationship between FL learning problems and learning disabilities. The simple view of reading model posits that reading comprehension is the product of word decoding and language comprehension and that there are good readers and 3 types of poor readers--dyslexic, hyperlexic, and garden variety--who exhibit different profiles of strengths and/or deficits in word decoding and language comprehension. 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.
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