Dr. Baha Makhoul
Research Interests
Educational Background
Recent publications
Research Interests
- Reading and writing acquisition
- Diglossia and its impact on literacy achievements
- Educational technology
- Blended learning and literacy
- Academic language
- Writing in higher education
Educational Background
Recent publications
- Makhoul, B., & Copti-Mshael, Th. (Under review). From kindergarten to fourth grade: Predicting reading comprehension difficulties amongst Arab children, Journal for Applied Psycholinguistics.
- Makhoul, B., & Sabbah, K. (Under review). Academic Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension Skills among Seventh Graders in Arabic as L1. Journal of Psycholinguistics Research.
- Makhoul, B., Olshtain, E. (2018). Promoting comprehension skills via balanced-interactive intervention program. In Makhoul, B. & Olshtain, E. (Eds.). Linguistic development among Arab speakers in multilingual environment. Tel-Aviv: Mofet Institute. (In Hebrew)
- Makhoul, B., Copti-Mshael, Th. (2018). Reading Comprehension as a Function of Text Genre and Presentation Environment: Comprehension of Narrative and Informational texts in a computer-assisted environment vs. print. In Makhoul, B. & Olshtain, E. (Eds.). Linguistic development among Arab speakers in multilingual environment. Tel-Aviv: Mofet Institute. (In Hebrew)
- Makhoul, B., & Olshtain, E. (2018). Linguistic development of Arab speakers in multilingual environment. Tel-Aviv: Mofet institute