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Peer reviewedAllen, Walter P. – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Grammar
Peer reviewedMuljani, 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
Peer reviewedZuckernick, Howard – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Focuses on how second language (L2) readers go about decoding word forms. The article describes a psycholinguistic experiment investigating how advanced Finnish speakers of English as a foreign language pronounced monosyllabic pseudo-words based on common real-word orthographic patterns in English. Results indicate that even advanced L2 readers'…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Finnish, Foreign Countries
