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Singh, Anisha; Wang, Min; Faroqi-Shah, Yasmeen – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The romanization of non-alphabetic scripts, particularly in digital contexts, is a widespread phenomenon across many languages. However, the effect of script romanization on English reading by bilinguals with English as a second language is underexamined. Guided by the premises of the "script relativity hypothesis" and the Bilingual…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Romanization
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Asadi, Ibrahim A.; Asli-Badarneh, Abeer; Janaideh, Redab Al; Khateb, Asaid – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study investigated the strength of lexical and non-lexical processing among Arabic (L1) English (L3)-speaking children (fourth and fifth grades, N = 532) in two writing systems that vary in terms of transparency. Children were assessed using word reading, phonological and vocabulary measures. In Arabic, the study focused on standard form.…
Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Language Processing, Grade 4
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Kimberly Klassen – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2022
A standard treatment of proper names in second language (L2) vocabulary analyses is to categorize them as known items. This treatment is often supported by the assumption that the form of the proper name (i.e., the initial capital letter) and the context will indicate to the L2 reader that the item is a proper name. The aim of this work-in-…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Naming, Second Language Learning, Cues
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Yeong, Stephanie H. M.; Fletcher, Janet; Bayliss, Donna M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
This cross-sectional study examines the importance of English phonological and orthographic processing skills to English word reading and spelling in 3 groups of younger (8-9 years) and older (11-12 years) children from different language backgrounds: English monolingual, English first language (L1)-Mandarin second language (L2), and Mandarin…
Descriptors: Phonology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese
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Silva, Renita; Clahsen, Harald – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
This paper reports results from masked priming experiments investigating regular past-tense forms and deadjectival nominalizations with -ness and -ity in adult native (L1) speakers of English and in different groups of advanced adult second language (L2) learners of English. While the L1 group showed efficient priming for both inflected and…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
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Wang, Min; Koda, Keiko – Language Learning, 2007
This study examined word identification skills between two groups of college students with different first language (L1) backgrounds (Chinese and Korean) learning to read English as a second language (ESL). Word identification skills were tested in a naming experiment and an auditory category judgment task. Both groups of ESL learners demonstrated…
Descriptors: Identification, Reading Processes, English (Second Language), Word Recognition
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Koda, Keiko – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1990
An investigation of native language influence on second-language (English) reading processed indicated that, when essential phonological information was inaccessible, Arabic and Spanish phonographic readers were seriously impaired, although Japanese morphographic readers were not affected. (83 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Japanese, Language Processing
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Muljani, D.; Koda, Keiko; Moates, Danny R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
A study investigated differences in English word recognition in native speakers of Indonesian (an alphabetic language) and Chinese (a logographic languages) learning English as a Second Language. Results largely confirmed the hypothesis that an alphabetic first language would predict better word recognition in speakers of an alphabetic language,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Bird, Norman, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Papers from a 1993 International Conference on Language in Education include: "A Language Development Approach to Education" (M. A. K. Halliday); Text, Talk, and Inquiry: Schooling as a Semiotic Apprenticeship" (G. Wells); "Chinese Orthography and Reading" (O. J. L. Tzeng); "Task-Centred Assessment in Language…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies