Reading Arabic isn't easy, brain study suggests

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 11:21 in Psychology & Sociology

The brain's right hemisphere is not involved in the initial processes of reading in Arabic, due to the graphic complexity of Arabic script. Therefore reading acquisition in Arabic is much harder in comparison to English, according to a recent series of studies.

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