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Chapman, Marilyn L.; Michaelson, Myra – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1998
Used multiple case studies to examine the writing of eight second graders in a dual curriculum school with Hebrew as an additional language. Findings revealed some letter and directional reversals, mostly conventional word boundaries, and invented spellings in both languages. Evidence suggests that learning to write in an additional language is an…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Case Studies, Childrens Writing, Comparative Analysis