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Jian Xu; Yabing Wang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The primary goal of the present study was to examine the relationship between academic buoyancy, academic emotions, and self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategies in the second or foreign language (L2) writing context. Particularly, we aimed to investigate whether the relationships between writing buoyancy and SRL writing strategies…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies, Writing Strategies
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Kim, Young-Suk – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examined (1) the potential influence of oral language characteristics of two languages that bilingual children acquire on their PA and (2) the relationship of PA in L1 with PA and literacy skills in L2, using data from Korean-English bilingual children. Thirty three Korean-English bilingual children, composed of two subsamples from two…
Descriptors: Phonology, Oral Language, Sight Vocabulary, Phonological Awareness
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Ibrahim, Raphiq – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
The goal of the present study was to explore the pattern of lexical connections between translation equivalents represented in the cognitive system of an Arabic-Hebrew bilingual. To achieve this goal, repetition priming effects (reaction times (RTs) and accuracy measures) were compared between translation equivalents in the two forms of Arabic,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Morphophonemics, Bilingualism, Translation
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Nakamoto, Jonathan; Lindsey, Kim A.; Manis, Franklin R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
This longitudinal investigation examined word decoding and reading comprehension measures from first grade through sixth grade for a sample of Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs). The sample included 261 children (average age of 7.2 years; 120 boys; 141 girls) at the initial data collection in first grade. The ELLs' word decoding and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Age, Oral Language, Phonological Awareness
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Figueredo, L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
Currently, there is a practical demand and necessity for research on how English-as-a-second language (ESL) learners acquire literacy skills, such as spelling. One important issue of this research agenda is how ESL learners apply first-language knowledge to learning to spell in English. Twenty-seven studies were reviewed that investigated the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Literacy, Spelling, Second Language Learning
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Breznitz, Zvia; Oren, Revital; Shaul, Shelley – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The aim of the present study was to examine differences among "regular" and dyslexic adult bilingual readers when processing reading and reading related skills in their first (L1 Hebrew) and second (L2 English) languages. Brain activity during reading Hebrew and English unexpected sentence endings was also studied. Behavioral and…
Descriptors: Brain, Dyslexia, Semitic Languages, English