Chapter 16: Second Language Writing Systems: Minority Languages and Reluctant Readers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Researching Second Language Writing Systems 1
6. Part 1: Writing a Second Language Writing System
7. Chapter 2: L2 Japanese Kanji Memory and Retrieval: An Experiment on the Tip-of-the-pen (TOP) Phenomenon 71
8. Chapter 3: The Role of the Phonological Strategy in Learning to Spell in English as a Second Language 97
9. Chapter 4: Orthographic Knowledge and First Language Reading: Evidence from Single Word Dictation from Chinese and Malaysian Users of English as a Foreign Language 122
10. Chapter 5: Learner Corpora and Handwriting 147
11. Chapter 6: A Corpus-based Study of Spelling Errors of Japanese EFLWriters with Reference to Errors Occurring in Word-initial and Word-final Positions 164
12. Chapter 7: Spelling and Pronunciation in Migrant Children: The Case of Italian-Swiss German Bilinguals 184
13. Part 2: Reading a Second Language Writing System
14. Chapter 8: Are the L1 and L2 Word Reading Processes Affected More by Writing System or Instruction? 215
15. Chapter 9: Effects of Second Language Reading Proficiency and First Language Orthography on Second Language Word Recognition 238
16. Chapter 10: Bilingual Interactive Activation Models of Word Recognition in a Second Language 260
17. Chapter 11: The Effect of L1 Reading Processes on L2: A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Italian and Japanese Users of English 289
18. Part 3: Awareness of Language and Second Language Writing Systems
19. Chapter 12: Learning to Read Across Writing Systems: Transfer, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Second-language Reading Development 311
20. Chapter 13: Effects of Writing Systems on Second Language Awareness: Word Awareness in English Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language 335
21. Chapter 14: Phonological Awareness and Spelling Skill Development in Bilingual Biscriptal Children 357
22. Part 4: Teaching a Second Language Writing System
23. Chapter 15: Different and Differing Views on Conceptualising Writing System Research and Education 375
24. Chapter 16: Second Language Writing Systems: Minority Languages and Reluctant Readers 398
25. Chapter 17: Written Language and Foreign Language Teaching 424
26. Index 443