Second language writing systems / edited by Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cook, Vivian, 1940-2021.

Bassetti, Benedetta.

Series:

Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ; 11.

Second language acquisition ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Written communication--Study and teaching.

Written communication.

Language and languages--Orthography and spelling--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2005.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Second Language Writing Systems looks at how people learn and use a second language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the first and second writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved. This book presents for the first time the effects of writing systems on language reading and writing and on language awareness, and provides a new platform for discussing bilingualism, biliteracy and writing systems. The approach is interdisciplinary, with contributions not only from applied linguists and psychologists but also corpus linguists, educators and phoneticians. A variety of topics are covered, from handwriting to spelling, word recognition to the mental lexicon, and language textbooks to metalinguistic awareness. Though most of the studies concern adult L2 learners and users, other populations covered include minority children, immersion students and bilingual children. While the emphasis is on English as the L2 writing system, many other writing systems are analysed as L1 or L2: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Gujarati, Indonesian, Irish, Italian and Japanese. Approaches that are represented include contrastive analysis, transfer, poststructuralism, connectionism and corpus analysis. The readership is SLA and bilingualism researchers, students and teachers around the world; language teachers will also find much food for thought.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Researching Second Language Writing Systems

Chapter 2: L2 Japanese Kanji Memory and Retrieval: An Experiment on the Tip-of-the-pen (TOP) Phenomenon

Chapter 3: The Role of the Phonological Strategy in Learning to Spell in English as a Second Language

Chapter 4: Orthographic Knowledge and First Language Reading: Evidence from Single Word Dictation from Chinese and Malaysian Users of English as a Foreign Language

Chapter 5: Learner Corpora and Handwriting

Chapter 6: A Corpus-based Study of Spelling Errors of Japanese EFLWriters with Reference to Errors Occurring in Word-initial and Word-final Positions

Chapter 7: Spelling and Pronunciation in Migrant Children: The Case of Italian-Swiss German Bilinguals

Chapter 8: Are the L1 and L2 Word Reading Processes Affected More by Writing System or Instruction?

Chapter 9: Effects of Second Language Reading Proficiency and First Language Orthography on Second Language Word Recognition

Chapter 10: Bilingual Interactive Activation Models of Word Recognition in a Second Language

Chapter 11: The Effect of L1 Reading Processes on L2: A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Italian and Japanese Users of English

Chapter 12: Learning to Read Across Writing Systems: Transfer, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Second-language Reading Development

Chapter 13: Effects of Writing Systems on Second Language Awareness: Word Awareness in English Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language

Chapter 14: Phonological Awareness and Spelling Skill Development in Bilingual Biscriptal Children

Chapter 15: Different and Differing Views on Conceptualising Writing System Research and Education

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

Chapter 17: Written Language and Foreign Language Teaching

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610828517

9781788920308

1788920309

9781280828515

128082851X

9781853597954

1853597953

OCLC:

475941465