A persistent belief in literacy education is that “once a child can read, they can read any language”. Decades of cross-linguistic research show that this assumption is misleading (e.g. Seymour, Aro & Erskine, 2003; Share, 2008). The way we learn to read is deeply shaped by the architecture of writing systems. Alphabetic scripts like English, […]
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Learning to read in multiple languages – The Reading Rope explained
There are many different approaches, theories and practices about how to start fostering reading skills, and they all differ across languages and cultures.
The Reading Rope by Hollis Scaraborough, a leading researcher of early language development and its connection to later literacy, is very helpful to illustrate what learning to read and becoming a skilled reader entails. But how does learning to read in one language differ from learning to read in several languages (almost) simultaneous differ?
