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Ayelet Sasson; Rachel Schiff; Barak Zluf – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study assessed the effect of adjectives and noun premodifiers on L2 noun phrase comprehension and error types among English Language Learners. We also examined the correlation between L2 noun phrase comprehension and L2 reading comprehension, as well as the contribution of L2 noun phrase comprehension to L2 reading comprehension. One hundred…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 11
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Yu Ka Wong; Barry Bai; Catherine McBride; Mark Shiu Kei Shum; Yanling Zhou – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The effects of transcription skills, comprising both spelling and handwriting fluency, on sentence writing among young Chinese as a second language (CSL) learners were evaluated and compared to those of reading and oral language using a one-year longitudinal study design. Various writing models postulated that transcription skills are essential in…
Descriptors: Chinese, Nonverbal Ability, Writing Skills, Longitudinal Studies
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Dobbs, Christina L.; Caselli, Naomi K.; Hartzell, Ethan; Flanagan, Coral; Yan, Yan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Language borrowing from sources is a phenomenon used by developing writers as they are learning academic language, though there is much to be learned about how younger students borrow from sources. This study explores student writing, from a sample of 166 diverse middle graders, across topics to determine patterns in borrowing from instructional…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Linguistic Borrowing, Academic Language, Writing Processes
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Leong, Che Kan; Shum, Mark Shiu Kee; Tai, Chung Pui; Ki, Wing Wah; Zhang, Dongbo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study examined the contribution of the constructs of orthographic processing (orthographic choice and orthographic choice in context), syntactic processing (grammaticality and sentence integrity), and verbal working memory (two reading span indicators) to written Chinese composition (narration, explanation, and argumentation) in 129…
Descriptors: Syntax, Grammar, Sentences, Verbal Communication
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Wong, Yu Ka – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study explored the concurrent and longitudinal relationships between reading and writing in young Chinese-as-a-second-language (CSL) learners' sentence writing, using structural equation modeling. The participants comprised 126 Hong Kong senior primary ethnic minority students, whose literacy skills were assessed at two time points over the…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Writing Skills
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Breznitz, Zvia; Oren, Revital; Shaul, Shelley – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The aim of the present study was to examine differences among "regular" and dyslexic adult bilingual readers when processing reading and reading related skills in their first (L1 Hebrew) and second (L2 English) languages. Brain activity during reading Hebrew and English unexpected sentence endings was also studied. Behavioral and…
Descriptors: Brain, Dyslexia, Semitic Languages, English