“…Several studies in the past few years have pointed out difficulties with the acquisition of the written form of Arabic among native Arabic speakers (Abu Rabia, 2001, 2002Abu Rabia & Siegel, 1995;Abu Rabia & Taha, 2004Azzam, 1984Azzam, , 1993Bentin & Ibrahim, 1996;Eviatar, Ibrahim & Ganayim, 2004;Ibrahim, Eviatar & Aharon-Perez, 2002;Saiegh-Haddad, 2003, 2004Saiegh-Haddad, Levin, Hende, and Ziv, 2011). For example, it was found that reaction times for visual recognition of Arabic words by senior high school native Arabic skilled readers were longer than reaction times for Hebrew words by native Hebrew high school seniors (Bentin & Ibrahim, 1996), English words by native English undergraduates, and Serbo-Croatian words by native Serbo-Croatians undergraduates (Frost, Katz, & Bentin, 1987).…”