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Li, Sha; Woore, Robert – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
The teaching of L2 phonics, defined here as explicit instruction in the symbol-sound correspondences of a second or foreign language, has been enjoying growing popularity in recent years. This is associated with the reemphasis of phonological decoding in different aspects of L2 learning, and learners' difficulty in developing L2 decoding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Decoding (Reading)
Iskender Gelir; Ali Kemal Tekin; Laila Al-Salmi – Cogent Education, 2024
This study aimed to examine the acquisition of Roman alphabetic script among young children within a bilingual (Arabic and English) educational environment employing a language separation pedagogical approach in Muscat, Oman. Data were collected utilizing participant observations, video recordings to capture the interactions of three children and…
Descriptors: Written Language, Romanization, Arabic, Native Language
Abdulaziz Alarifi; Benjamin V. Tucker – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigated the role of orthographic information in the acquisition of non-native speech sounds by monolingual English listeners. Two potentially important orthographic variables were explored: Orthographic compatibility (whether the orthographic information supports or contradicts the distributional information) and orthographic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Auditory Discrimination, Cues
Shakhsi Dastgahian, Elahe; Turner, Marianne; Scull, Janet – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
Despite the recent emphasis on oral English language proficiency in the Iranian education system, the teaching of oral communication remains a challenge for secondary school English language teachers. In this article, we suggest that this, in part, relates to the continued emphasis on literacy practices. The article explores the approach taken by…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods
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
Salehuddin, Khazriyati; Winskel, Heather – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2015
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the use of diacritics in the Arabic script of Malay to facilitate Arab postgraduate students of UKM to read the Malay words accurately. It is hypothesised that the Arabic script could facilitate the reading of Malay words among the Arab students because of their earlier exposure to the Arabic script in…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Distinctive Features (Language), Native Speakers, Written Language
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)
Shei, Chris; Hsieh, Hsun-Ping – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
Teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL) is increasingly becoming a mainstream profession and an independent academic discipline. However, there is little research in CALL targeting the Chinese language to date. This research attempts to show how a CALL system can be constructed following the unique properties of the Chinese language so it…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Romanization
Goodman, Kenneth S., Ed.; Wang, Shaomei, Ed.; Iventosch, Mieko, Ed.; Goodman, Yetta M., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Reading in Asian Languages" is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Korean Culture, Eye Movements
Iwashita, Noriko; Sekiguchi, Sachiyo – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
The paper presents preliminary findings of a project which investigated whether learner background, in terms of instruction mode (i.e., school or intensive first-year course at university) and first language (i.e., character based or non-character based), has an impact on the development of writing skills in Japanese as a second language (JSL).…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Romanization, Personality, Foreign Countries
Tegey, Habibullah; Robson, Barbara – 1993
Beginning Pashto is part of a set of materials for teaching oral and written Afghan Pashto. The Pashto writing system is taught in the first unit of the book and is used in the presentation of the material from then on. In the first three units, material is provided also in a romanized transcription. After that, the transcription of a word or…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar, Instructional Materials
Kirwan, Leigh – Babel, 2005
The historical development of written Japanese has resulted in an extremely complex system. Modern Japanese is usually written in logosyllabic script consisting of a combination of "kanji," the Chinese characters, and "kana," the Japanese syllables originally formed from them. There are two types of "kana," the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Romanization, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability
Ren, Guanxin – Babel, 2004
One of the difficulties secondary non-Chinese-speaking background (NCSB) learners are facing is to remember the characters learned in order to recall them when necessary. The traditional way of teaching secondary NCSB learners to remember Chinese characters is through mere repetition, e.g. writing out each single character by following its stroke…
Descriptors: Romanization, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Native Speakers
Lam, Clara; Chow, Balance – 1995
American students are exposed to many different romanization systems when learning Chinese. The most important systems include Pinyin, Zhuyin fuhao, Wade-Giles, Gwoyeu Romatzhy, and the Yale system, to name just a few. The Pinyin system, which is built on the English alphabet, is the official transliteration system of mainland China. The Zhuyin…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Maintenance, Foreign Countries
Kubota, Mariko – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
This article analyzes the self-correction of spelling by learners of intermediate Japanese. Participants in this study consisted of 20 students with "kanji" (Chinese characters) background and 43 without. This study investigates (1) types of spelling errors made; (2) the success rate of corrections made when codes for types of errors…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Spelling, Pronunciation, Protocol Analysis
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