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Huang-Lan Su – Journal of Literacy Research, 2025
This study examines the intricate relationship between language ideology, Taiwanese identity, and the adoption of the romanized Taiwanese system (Pe?h-oe-ji) within the Taiwanese language (Tâigí) speaking community, against the predominance of Mandarin. It explores the multifaceted motivations of Tâigí users for preferring Pe?h-oe-ji, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Sino Tibetan Languages, Romanization
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Chen, Yi-Jui Iva; Thompson, Christopher G.; Xu, Zhihong; Irey, Robin C.; Georgiou, George K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The primary goal of this meta-analysis was to estimate the overall size of the relation between rapid automatized naming (RAN) and spelling in alphabetic languages and to examine what factors may moderate their relation. In addition, we examined if the size of the RAN-spelling relation is similar to that of the RAN-reading relation. A…
Descriptors: Naming, Spelling, Meta Analysis, Correlation
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Mammadzada, Sabina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
The article highlights the importance of transliteration in the field of machine translation, correct writing of personal and place names, and information retrieval. It provides an overview of various approaches, models and methods available in the field of transliteration. It shows the types of transliteration methods. The article also highlights…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Naming, Information Retrieval
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Winskel, Heather; Kim, Tae-Hoon – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Mirror invariance or generalisation is the ability to recognise objects as being the same regardless of their spatial orientation. However, when, for example, learning to read Roman script, children need to hone these skills so that they can readily discriminate between mirror letters such as b/d or p/b. Korean Hangul makes a particularly…
Descriptors: Generalization, Korean, Written Language, Alphabets
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Iskender Gelir; Ali Kemal Tekin; Laila Al-Salmi – Cogent Education, 2024
This study aimed to examine the acquisition of Roman alphabetic script among young children within a bilingual (Arabic and English) educational environment employing a language separation pedagogical approach in Muscat, Oman. Data were collected utilizing participant observations, video recordings to capture the interactions of three children and…
Descriptors: Written Language, Romanization, Arabic, Native Language
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Yang Wang; Ismahan Arslan-Ari; Ling Hao; Kyungjin Hwang – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
This case study investigates the reading processes of two bilingual teachers who speak English as a second language and use different first languages--Mandarin Chinese and Korean. The two participants read researcher-selected digital texts in English and in their respective first language, retold the texts, and answered comprehension questions…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Romanization, Written Language, Bilingualism
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Abdulaziz Alarifi; Benjamin V. Tucker – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigated the role of orthographic information in the acquisition of non-native speech sounds by monolingual English listeners. Two potentially important orthographic variables were explored: Orthographic compatibility (whether the orthographic information supports or contradicts the distributional information) and orthographic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Auditory Discrimination, Cues
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Coluzzi, Paolo – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
Jawi is the orthography in which Malay has been written since the Middle Ages, when it was adapted from the Arabic script. Introduced by Muslim traders, it was adapted to Malay phonology using diacritics that modified six letters. It was used until the Roman script (Rumi) brought in by European traders and colonisers began to supplant it in the…
Descriptors: Written Language, Indonesian Languages, Muslims, Phonology
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Zhang, Hui; Seilhamer, Mark Fifer; Cheung, Yin Ling – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
Chinatowns, as neighborhoods for overseas ethnic Chinese, have garnered considerable scholarly attention from linguistic landscape (LL) researchers in recent years. These investigations tend to treat old immigrants who have been tied to the neighborhoods for generations as the key text producers of LL, with far too little attention paid to the LL…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Planning, Language Usage, Neighborhoods
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Bekzhanova, Zhazira; Makoelle, Tsediso Michael – SAGE Open, 2022
Kazakhstan's decision to transition its Kazakh language from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet has serious implications for language policy, communication, education, inclusion, and social cohesion. This critical qualitative study, underpinned by a discourse-historical approach, employs critical discourse analysis to analyze statements of…
Descriptors: Romanization, Turkic Languages, Language Attitudes, Decision Making