This paper proposes a reading support technique for Arabic students of English. These students
must overcome the L1 interference “reversal of reading direction.” PowerPoint presentations,
utilizing a simple fade effect with adjustable delay between words such that the text appears
nicely in a left-to-right manner, line by line with voice roughly synchronized to the text to allow
for emphasis, phrasing, and movement, provide the support necessary to develop fluency in
reading—and writing—English. When reading fixed English texts, Arabic students who lose the
thread find it extremely difficult to rejoin the sound-grapheme stream. This technique provides
the support necessary to overcome that obstacle. Students can never “get lost,” because
whenever they attempt to rejoin the story, the words they hear are appearing across the page.
The literature revealed no research related to the topic, suggesting an area of need