Learning to Spell in Arabic: The Impact of Script-Specific Visual-Orthographic Features

Learning to spell is a challenging process, especially for young learners, in part because it relies on multiple aspects of linguistic knowledge, primarily phonological and morphological. However, alongside these universals, there are significant writing system specifics, namely, language-specific and script-specific factors that may also challenge young readers and writers (Daniels & Share, 2018). The current study focuses on the impact of...