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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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Zuhair, Ahmad – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper aims at investigating the effect of Arabization of Romanic Alphabets on the development of 9th Grade English as a Foreign Language students' composition writing skills at secondary school level. This experimental study includes 25 secondary school students in their 9th Grade in which English is taught as a foreign language at…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Alphabets, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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King, Kendall A.; Bigelow, Martha; Hirsi, Abdiasis – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2017
This article examines everyday classroom peer interaction among emergent multilingual high school students who are new to the United States, new to school, new to English, and new to alphabetic print literacy. Data were collected through observation and video recording within a daily 90-minute, English language and literacy block class over the…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Figueiredo, Sandra; Martins, Margarida Alves; da Silva, Carlos Fernandes – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
Heritage language speakers struggle in European classrooms with insufficient material provided for second language (SL) learning and assessment. Considering the amount of instruments and pertinent studies in English SL, immigrant students are better prepared than their peers in Romance language settings. This study investigates how factors such as…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Second Language Learning, Romance Languages, Morphology (Languages)
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Rosowsky, Andrey – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
Much attention has been paid in the literature to matters of script choice vis-a-vis languages. This attention, however, has focused on script choice in a national and political context. By contrast, there has not been any significant attention paid to more local and idiosyncratic instances of script choice operating on an individual and community…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Written Language, Muslims
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Al-Azami, Salman; Kenner, Charmian; Ruby, Mahera; Gregory, Eve – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
This paper examines how transliteration can be used as a bridge to learning for children who are studying more than one script. The focus is on second and third generation British Bangladeshi children aged 7-11, attending London primary schools and learning to write in Bengali at community-run after-school classes. An action research project…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Action Research, English (Second Language), Indo European Languages
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Huang, Daphne Li-jung – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper describes how Chinese-English bilinguals in Taiwan use their languages in asynchronous computer-mediated communication, specifically, via Bulletin Board System (BBS) and email. The main data includes two types: emails collected from a social network and postings collected from two BBS websites. By examining patterns of language choice…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Mandarin Chinese
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Winke, Paula; Goertler, Senta; Amuzie, Grace L. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2010
In this study, we present the analyses stemming from a survey administered to 2149 foreign language learners at Michigan State University. We had three goals. First, we aimed to compile a profile of language learners' technological acumen, access to and ownership of technology, and the current uses of technology across a wide range of languages…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Ownership, Orthographic Symbols, Second Language Learning
Barnard, Roger – Forum, 1997
Provides suggestions for helping English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers who work with students who write in a different alphabet or use a different form of script deal with the handwriting of their classes at the start of English learning. It is a way to systematically check, revise, and improve learners' handwriting through the use of dictations.…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Classroom Techniques, Dictation, English (Second Language)
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1978
The three purposes of this guide are to provide information on the Khmer language, alphabet, and educational systems which will be useful to Americans teaching English to Cambodian refugees; to give specific suggestions for teaching Cambodians to write the English alphabet; and to provide teaching materials that deal with the particular…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Alphabets, Cambodian, English (Second Language)