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Second Language Word Decoding Strategies.
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Zuckernick, 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