... studies have examined the reading skills of ELLs in both the native and second language to determine if phonological processing skills are correlated in the two languages The hypothesis is that ... exposure to English, literacy instructional methods, the proportion of ELLs in the classroom in which the child is being educated, and the specific characteristics of the first language of the student ... understanding of the reading process, including reading failure Since the concept of learning disability was first outlined by Samuel Kirk (1963), investigators have concentrated on identifying the...