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The Utility of Orthographic Design for Different Users: The Case of the Approved Dagbani Orthography
Fusheini Angulu Hudu – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
This paper presents a critical assessment of the utility of the orthography of Dagbani (a Gur language of Ghana) in the documentation, linguistic research, and literacy acquisition of Dagbani. While written literature on Dagbani dates to over a century, it was only in 1997 that the only known documented orthographic rules of the language, the…
Descriptors: Written Language, Language Maintenance, Language Research, African Languages
Mori, Yoshiko; Hasegawa, Atsushi; Mori, Junko – Language Teaching, 2021
This article updates the trends and developments of Japanese as a second language (JSL) research since Mori and Mori (2011) by reviewing nearly 200 selected empirical studies published in English or Japanese between 2010 and early 2019. The first section of this review examines the cognitive aspects of second language (L2) Japanese development,…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Japanese
McQuarrie, Lynn; Parrila, Rauno – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
Cumulating evidence suggests that the establishment of high-quality phonological representations is the "cognitive precursor" that facilitates the acquisition of language (spoken, signed, and written). The authors present two studies that contrast the nature of bilingual profoundly deaf children's phonological representations derived…
Descriptors: Phonology, Deafness, Sign Language, Bilingualism
Jones, Peter E. – Language and Education, 2013
This paper examines the key linguistic arguments underpinning Basil Bernstein's theory of "elaborated" and "restricted" "codes". Building on a review of selected highlights from the collective critical response to Bernstein, the paper attempts to clarify the relationship of the theory to "deficit" views…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Cognitive Processes, Models, Literacy
Foorman, Barbara R.; Arndt, Elissa J.; Crawford, Elizabeth C. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2011
Currently students who struggle with language and literacy learning are classified with various labels in different states--language learning disabilities, dyslexia, specific language impairment, and specific learning disability--in spite of having similar diagnostic profiles. Drawing on the research on comprehension of written language, we…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reading Consultants, Written Language, Learning Disabilities
Tarone, Elaine – Language Teaching, 2010
Many adolescent and adult L2 learners in language classrooms, both in the US and other countries, have little or no alphabetic print literacy. Language teachers may turn to SLA research for assistance, yet almost all research on oral SLA has focused on educated, highly-literate learners (Bigelow & Tarone 2004; Tarone, Bigelow & Hansen 2009). The…
Descriptors: Afro Asiatic Languages, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Experimental Psychology
Grigorenko, Elena L., Ed.; Mambrino, Elisa, Ed.; Preiss, David D., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Written Language, Literacy, Child Development
Bialystok, Ellen – Language Learning, 2007
Much of the research that contributes to understanding how bilingual children become literate is not able to isolate the contribution of bilingualism to the discussion of literacy acquisition for these children. This article begins by identifying three areas of research that are relevant to examining literacy acquisition in bilinguals, explaining…
Descriptors: Written Language, Phonemes, Literacy, Oral Language

Brown, R. A. – Visible Language, 1991
Examines societies in which varieties and degrees of literacy are possible or ordinary, such as Japan and Korea. Finds that these societies have separate but functionally interrelated writing systems, used for communicatively disparate purposes, differential mastery of which, consequently, has social and economic repercussions. Finds that…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Kindell, Gloria – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1983
Discusses four general areas of linguistics studies that are particularly relevant to literacy issues: (1) discourse analysis, including text analysis, spoken and written language, and home and school discourse; (2) relationships between speech and writing, the distance between dialects and written norms, and developmental writing; (3)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Dialects, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing
Goodwyn, Andrew, Ed.; Stables, Andrew, Ed. – SAGE Publications (UK), 2005
This book is a "three-in-one" text that students may use to: (1) Develop their critical understanding of research literature through a focus on reviewing relatively small-scale investigations in a particular field of inquiry; (2) Increase their appreciation of what it is possible to achieve through professionally conducted research investigations…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Criticism, Research Methodology, Literacy
Killingley, Siew-Yue – 1975
This paper: (1) examines the internal word structure of Cantonese in terms of root, stem and affix; (2) discusses general problems of word analysis in Chinese with reference to Cantonese and Mandarin; (3) examines the issue of distorted translations from Mandarin into English resulting from faulty word analysis; and (4) looks briefly at the…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Language Research, Language Usage

Biber, Douglas; Hared, Mohamed – Language Variation and Change, 1992
A multidimensional approach analyzes the linguistic characteristics of 26 Somali spoken and written registers. Somali represents a different language type, and no single dimension adequately describes the relations among registers. Findings are related to previous analyses of English, Tuvaluan, and Korean. (27 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Variation
Street, Brian V. – 1986
Different conceptions of literacy and its relationship with oral communication are examined, and a new approach that separates literacy and orality rather than representing them on a continuum is criticized. The methodological and theoretical assumptions underlying the work of proponents of the new approach are questioned, including: (1) a narrow…
Descriptors: Anthropology, English, Language Proficiency, Language Research
Olson, David R.; Nickerson, Nancy – 1977
The properties of written, textual language with which children deal in school can be distinguished from those of oral language by examining the manner in which interpersonal and logical functions are stressed and by assessing the degree to which interpretation is confined by meaning explicitly stated in textual matter. The developmental process…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
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