The cross-linguistic similarities of form, function, and meaning between the languages students have already acquired or learned and a new target language can positively affect learning, notably reading comprehension (Ringbom & Jarvis, 2009). Some studies show that the degree of overlap or LD betwee...
world may find it hard to work out some of the roles of and connections between characters. There are also some gremlins in the e-edition, which mean that odd words have been misrepresented, making for some rather strange sentences that have to be read twice to tease the proper meaning ...