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Sneddon, Raymonde – Language and Education, 2012
The paper offers a case study of two bilingual girls aged 10, born in London, of Albanian-speaking families who arrived in the UK as refugees. An earlier study, when the girls were aged six, explored the strategies they used as they learned to read with their mothers in Albanian using dual language books. Four years on, supported by a primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Children, Females
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Shen, Helen H. – Language and Education, 2004
This study investigates how different encoding strategies affect retention of Chinese characters (words) as measured by recall of the sound and meaning of the characters. Three types of encoding strategies were investigated during character learning: rote memorisation (shallow processing), student self-generated elaboration, and instructor-guided…
Descriptors: Chinese, Learning Strategies, Graphemes, Second Language Learning