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Hevia-Tuero, Carmen; Russak, Susie; Suárez-Coalla, Paz – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
English orthography differs from that of other European languages in terms of complexity and regularity. This difference may impact the development of accurate spelling in English, especially when it is learned as a foreign language in school. In this study we wanted to explore spelling development patterns of Spanish speaking children learning…
Descriptors: Spelling, Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
Kiziltas, Yusuf – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
Many students learn Turkish as a second language in Turkey. These students, whose first language is Kurdish, learn Turkish at a certain level before starting school. As a result, these students become emergent bilinguals along with school life. On the other hand, some of these students almost do not use Kurdish in their lives and wholly turn to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Writing Skills
Hamdan, Mohammad Hussein; Al-Zahrani, Muteb Ahmad S. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Spelling words accurately is not an easy process. Instead, it is a complex developmental skill. Due to this fact, several studies have recently investigated learners' spelling ability and how this skill develops in different stages. The main purpose of this study is to examine the developmental nature of Saudi intermediate school students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Spelling, Foreign Countries
Tavarez Da Costa, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
English spelling has always been described by many language researchers and teachers as a daunting task especially for learners whose first language is not English. This monograph presents the report of an investigation on the use of spelling, which includes the determining factor of grammar in the teaching of English, in it we will develop a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Spelling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wong, Yu Ka – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: This study investigates young Chinese as a second language (CSL) learners' Chinese character reading performance and its relationship with their orthographic awareness. There is a pressing need to gain a better understanding of Hong Kong's ethnic minority students' CSL acquisition, so that more effective instruction can be provided.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Reading Skills
Bossé, Michael J.; Bayaga, Anass; Fountain, Catherine; Lynch-Davis, Kathleen; Preston, Ron; Adu-Gyamfi, Kwaku – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2018
This study applies the Mathematics Acquisition Framework (MAF) (Bossé, Ringler, Bayaga, Fountain, & Young, 2018) to investigate fifth- through seventh-grade students' comprehension of fractions and decimals and examines how students build understanding of mathematical principles and concepts regarding fractions and decimals. Based on case…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
Mthethwa, Patrick – TESOL International Journal, 2016
This study reports evidence of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) that surfaced from English compositions of SiSwati learners of English in Swaziland, where English is a second language. Although CLI has been studied widely in other languages, it has not been studied in SiSwati and English, and its implications for instruction are not known.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Transfer of Training
Gaskell, Delian; Cobb, Thomas – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2004
Sentence-level writing errors seem immune to many of the feedback forms devised over the years, apart from the slow accumulation of examples from the environment itself, which second language (L2) learners gradually notice and use to varying degrees. A computer corpus and concordance could provide these examples in less time and more noticeable…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Sentences, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language)