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Jiang, Yih-Lin Belinda; Kuo, Li-Jen; Moody, Stephanie M. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2022
Current research on cross-language transfer has focused primarily on literacy development. The present study extends the scope of existing research by focusing on argumentative reasoning, an important but under-research academic skill. A single-case study with a reversal design was conducted with four Chinese-English elementary students with the…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Literacy
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Abu-Rabia, Salim; Shakkour, Wael; Siegel, Linda – Bilingual Research Journal, 2013
This study examined the effects of an intervention helping struggling readers improve their reading and writing skills in English as a foreign language (L2), and those same skills in Arabic, which was their first language (L1). Transferring linguistic skills from L2 to L1 is termed "cognitive retroactive transfer". Tests were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Skills, Syntax, Semitic Languages