Children from minority ethnic groups and children whose first language is not the language of instruction may struggle in learning to read

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the future-work section and stated challenges and inline gaps of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2024 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 2 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Examining complex academic language in children with dyslexia: a comparative analysis with curriculum standards (2026) · Annals of Dyslexia · cited 1× · doi

  Investigate the effectiveness of interventions for improving narrative discourse, sentence, and vocabulary complexities in students with dyslexia - Examine the relationship between dyslexia and language complexities in bilingual or multilingual students - Develop and evaluate new assessment tools for evaluating language complexities in students with dyslexia - Explore the impact of working memory, processing speed, and orthographic skills on language complexities in students with dyslexia

  generalfuture-work section
  Keywords: investigate effectiveness interventions improving narrative discourse sentence vocabulary
• Are Poor Readers Also Poor Spellers: An Investigation Into the Malay and English Languages Among Young Multilingual Malaysians (2024) · Theory and Practice in Language Studies · cited 1× · doi

  One challenge is that children from minority ethnic groups and children whose first language is not the language of instruction may struggle in learning to read. Another challenge is that multilingual students may face challenges as they learn additional languages and scripts that possess unrelated and distinctive characteristics to their first language. The study also notes that the transferability of reading-related skills may be limited in a multilingual context.

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  Keywords: one challenge children minority ethnic groups first language
• Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Students with Dyslexia. A Literature Review (2026) · International Journal of Language and Literary Studies · doi

  Further research is necessary to determine if methods used for teaching a first language to dyslexic learners would also be successful when teaching foreign languages (Crombie, 2000, p. (2023) could be replicated with a larger number of participants. An important limitation is the impossibility of including in this paper studies written in other languages than English. The current paper paves the way for further research on dyslexia, such as multilingualism and dyslexia, and the use of technology and dyslexia.

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  Keywords: dyslexia further teaching languages necessary determine used first language dyslexic learners successful foreign crombie replicated

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