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richard lee sparks

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Diagnosing specific learning disorder in adults Part I: conceptual and methodological challenges

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology·2026·2 authors·review

2citations

Diagnosing specific learning disorder in adults Part II: bias, base rates, and a path forward

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology·2026·2 authors·review

2citations

Foreign Language Learning and Learning Disabilities: An Historical, Empirical, and Cultural Perspective for Policies and Procedures

Journal of Disability Policy Studies·2023·1 author

5citations

Individual differences in L2 achievement mirror individual differences in L1 skills and L2 aptitude: Crosslinguistic transfer of L1 to L2 skills

Foreign Language Annals·2019·3 authors

38citations

Myths About Foreign Language Learning and Learning Disabilities

Foreign Language Annals·2016·1 author

42citations

Relationship of L1 Skills and L2 Aptitude to L2 Anxiety on the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale

Language Learning·2013·2 authors

74citations

Applying Objective Diagnostic Criteria to Students in a College Support Program for Learning Disabilities

Learning Disability Quarterly·2013·2 authors

24citations

Early reading success and its relationship to reading achievement and reading volume: replication of ‘10 years later’

Reading and Writing·2013·3 authors

163citations

Individual Differences in L2 Learning and Long‐Term L1–L2 Relationships

Language Learning·2012·1 author

61citations

Profiles of more and less successful L2 learners: A cluster analysis study

Learning and Individual Differences·2012·3 authors

80citations

Do L1 Reading Achievement and L1 Print Exposure Contribute to the Prediction of L2 Proficiency?

Language Learning·2012·4 authors

61citations

Subcomponents of Second-Language Aptitude and Second-Language Proficiency

Modern Language Journal·2011·4 authors

96citations

College Students With Learning Disability Diagnoses

Journal of Learning Disabilities·2009·2 authors·review

134citations

Long-term relationships among early first language skills, second language aptitude, second language affect, and later second language proficiency

Applied Psycholinguistics·2009·4 authors

158citations

Exploring the Diagnosis of “Gifted/LD”: Characterizing Postsecondary Students With Learning Disability Diagnoses at Different IQ Levels

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment·2009·2 authors

20citations

If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You'll Wind up Somewhere Else: The Case of “Foreign Language Learning Disability”

Foreign Language Annals·2009·1 author

50citations

Long‐Term Crosslinguistic Transfer of Skills From L1 to L2

Language Learning·2009·4 authors

158citations

Objective Criteria for Classification of Postsecondary Students as Learning Disabled

Journal of Learning Disabilities·2009·2 authors

56citations

Early first-language reading and spelling skills predict later second-language reading and spelling skills.

Journal of Educational Psychology·2008·5 authors

157citations

Individual and longitudinal differences among high and low-achieving, LD, and ADHD L2 learners

Learning and Individual Differences·2007·3 authors

52citations

Is the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale Measuring Anxiety or Language Skills?

Foreign Language Annals·2007·2 authors

168citations

Is There a “Disability” for Learning a Foreign Language?

Journal of Learning Disabilities·2006·1 author

55citations

Native language predictors of foreign language proficiency and foreign language aptitude

Annals of Dyslexia·2006·5 authors

130citations

Weak and strong novice readers of english as a foreign language: Effects of first language and socioeconomic status

Annals of Dyslexia·2006·3 authors

72citations

Predicting Foreign Language Reading Achievement in Elementary School Students

Reading and Writing·2005·3 authors

72citations

College Students Classified as Having Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the Foreign Language Requirement

Foreign Language Annals·2003·3 authors

12citations

Students Classified as LD Who Received Course Substitutions for the College Foreign Language Requirement

Journal of Learning Disabilities·2002·3 authors

27citations

Learning difficulties and foreign language learning: A review of research and instruction

Language Teaching·2001·2 authors

73citations

Aptitude for learning a foreign language

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics·2001·2 authors

139citations

Déjà Vu All Over Again: A Response to Saito, Horwitz, and Garza

Modern Language Journal·2000·3 authors

82citations

Students Classified as LD and the College Foreign Language Requirement

Journal of Learning Disabilities·1999·4 authors

34citations

Comparison of Students Classified as LD Who Petitioned for or Fulfilled the College Foreign Language Requirement

Journal of Learning Disabilities·1999·4 authors

33citations

Students Classified as LD and the College Foreign Language Requirement

Journal of Learning Disabilities·1999·2 authors

27citations

Benefits of multisensory structured language instruction for at-risk foreign language learners: A comparison study of high school Spanish students

Annals of Dyslexia·1998·7 authors

69citations

Foreign Language Learning Difficulties

Journal of Learning Disabilities·1998·3 authors

133citations

Differences in native-language skills, foreign- language aptitude, and foreign-language grades among high-, average-, and low-proficiency foreign-language learners: two studies

Language Testing·1998·6 authors

81citations

Language Anxiety and Proficiency in a Foreign Language

Perceptual and Motor Skills·1997·5 authors

40citations

Prediction of foreign language proficiency.

Journal of Educational Psychology·1997·6 authors

90citations

Anxiety about Foreign Language Learning among High School Women

Modern Language Journal·1996·2 authors

187citations

Teachers' Perceptions of Students' Foreign Language Academic Skills and Affective Characteristics

The Journal of Educational Research·1996·2 authors

59citations

A Strong Inference Approach to Causal Factors in Foreign Language Learning: A Response to MacIntyre

Modern Language Journal·1995·2 authors

152citations

Effects of Direct Instruction in Spanish Phonology on the Native-Language Skills and Foreign-Language Aptitude of At-Risk Foreign-Language Learners

Journal of Learning Disabilities·1995·2 authors

102citations

Examining the linguistic coding differences hypothesis to explain individual differences in foreign language learning

Annals of Dyslexia·1995·1 author

130citations

Prediction of performance in first-year foreign language courses: Connections between native and foreign language learning.

Journal of Educational Psychology·1995·3 authors

77citations

Differences in Language Performance among High-, Average-, and Low-Anxious College Foreign Language Learners

Modern Language Journal·1994·6 authors

158citations

The effects of multisensory structured language instruction on native language and foreign language aptitude skills of at-risk high school foreign language learners: A replication and follow-up study

Annals of Dyslexia·1993·2 authors

67citations

Perceptions of Low and High Risk Students and Students with Learning Disabilities About High School Foreign Language Courses

Foreign Language Annals·1993·3 authors

46citations

Searching for the Cognitive Locus of Foreign Language Learning Difficulties: Linking First and Second Language Learning

Modern Language Journal·1993·2 authors

203citations

The Impact of Native Language Learning Problems on Foreign Language Learning: Case Study Illustrations of the Linguistic Cooling Deficit Hypothesis

Modern Language Journal·1993·2 authors

143citations

The Impact of Native Language Learning Problems on Foreign Language Learning: Case Study Illustrations of the Linguistic Coding Deficit Hypothesis

Modern Language Journal·1993·2 authors

56citations

The effects of multisensory structured language instruction on native language and foreign language aptitude skills of at-risk high school foreign language learners

Annals of Dyslexia·1992·5 authors

72citations

Identifying Native Language Deficits in High‐ and Low‐Risk Foreign Language Learners in High School

Foreign Language Annals·1992·5 authors

67citations

Speech/Language Referral Practices by School Psychologists

School Psychology Review·1992·3 authors

2citations

Test Comparisons among Students Identified as High-Risk, Low-Risk, and Learning Disabled in High School Foreign Language Courses

Modern Language Journal·1992·5 authors

85citations

Identifying Native Language Difficulties Among Foreign Language Learners in College: A "Foreign" Language Learning Disability?

Journal of Learning Disabilities·1991·5 authors

147citations

A Screening Instrument for the Identification of Foreign Language Learning Problems

Foreign Language Annals·1991·2 authors

52citations

Foreign Language Learning Differences: Affective or Native Language Aptitude Differences?

Modern Language Journal·1991·2 authors

348citations

Use of an orton-gillingham approach to teach a foreign language to dyslexic/learning-disabled students: Explicit teaching of phonology in a second language

Annals of Dyslexia·1991·4 authors

83citations

Foreign Language Learning Differences: Affective or Native Language Aptitude Differences?

Modern Language Journal·1991·2 authors

67citations

Linguistic coding deficits in foreign language learners

Annals of Dyslexia·1989·3 authors

130citations