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L1 orthography and ESL literacy : a comparison of English, Persian, and Chinese L1 speakers ...
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Abstract:
Orthographies vary in how sounds are translated to print. Alphabetic orthographies utilize grapheme-phoneme correspondences, whereas nonalphabetic orthographies do not. The present study examined whether learning to read and spell in English as a second language was influenced by the learner's first language. The participants were 122 third-grade children (mean age: 8.88 years) with contrasting linguistic backgrounds. The sample was comprised of 45 children who's native language was English (alphabetic), 32 ESL children who's native language was Persian (alphabetic) and 45 ESL children who's native language was Chinese (nonalphabetic). The performance of the three groups was comparable on measures of reading, phonological awareness, decoding, working memory and spelling. However, the Chinese speakers scored significantly lower than the alphabetic speakers on measures of syntactic awareness and pseudoword spelling. Misspelling error analyses further revealed that although the Chinese speakers were as likely ...
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URL: https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0054489 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0054489
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