Over the past few years, some states have spent millions of dollars and passed new laws in an attempt to shift the way that schools teach kids how to read. These efforts take aim at commonly used ...

Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

Learning and developing as a reader are more complicated in a language the reader is simultaneously learning to speak and understand. This challenge is faced by millions of English learners (ELs) who ...

The project is conducted in cooperation with Dr. Karoline Wirbatz (derzeit Uni Münster). This study investigates Year 4 learners‘ reading competences in English and German (language of schooling) in ...