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Direct linkZhang, Shuai; Breuer, Esther Odilia; Grünke, Matthias; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
The current study examined German spelling errors among students with German as their first language (L1) and those with German as their second language (L2) in Grades 3-4 (elementary school students; n = 127) and Grades 5-7 (secondary school students; n = 379). Five hundred and six students participated in the study. We performed two separate…
Descriptors: Spelling, Error Analysis (Language), Individual Differences, Foreign Countries
Yin, Li; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Li, Daoxin; Kim, Seon-Kee – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Graphotactic as well as phonological factors influence native English speakers' decisions about consonant doubling in the spelling of nonwords, e.g., "zimen" versus "zimmen." This study examined the extent to which such influences apply to non-native speakers of English, who presumably have less knowledge of English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), College Students, Second Language Instruction
Li, Shifeng; Tao, Sha; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Xu, Qinfang – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
The authors report two studies that examined how native- and second-language skills were related to second-language reading difficulties for native Chinese-speaking fourth graders learning to read English. In study 1, 50 poor English readers with Chinese-reading difficulties (the PB group) and 34 poor English readers without Chinese-reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language, Reading Difficulties
Bae, Han Suk; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The purpose of the present study was to explore the role of morphological awareness in reading comprehension in different language learning contexts (ESL and EFL). Korean ESL and Korean EFL learners (50 and 257 respectively) in grades five and six were administered measures of L2 (English) morphological, phonological, and orthographic awareness…
Descriptors: Korean, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textTibi, Sana; Stall, Patricia; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Park, Yujeong – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The study explored English language learning of native Arabic-speaking pre-service teachers and examined their self-efficacy on academic English proficiency. Writing samples from ten Arabic speaking female teacher education students in a university in the United Arab Emirates were analyzed using a rubric along with in-depth interviews. Overall,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chuang, Hui-Kai; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Dixon, L. Quentin – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
How proficiency in reading the first language (L1) influences proficiency in reading in the second language (L2) was explored in this study. Reading scores in Mandarin Chinese (L1) and in English (L2) for 30,000 Taiwanese ninth-grade students were randomly selected from all who took the national Basic Competency Test during a 6-year period in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Statistical Significance, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability
Allaith, Zainab A.; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of some aspects of the Arabic phonological system on spelling English words. In Study 1, the spelling performance of Arabic students from grades four and six was compared with English students in cognate phoneme pairs which exist across both languages (/d/ and /t/), and pairs in which…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Spelling, Phonemes, Phonology
