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The Effects of Phonological Awareness of Zulu-Speaking Children Learning to Spell in English: A Study of Cross-Language Transfer
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De Sousa, Diana Soares; Greenop, Kirston; Fry, Jessica – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: Emergent bilingual Zulu-English speaking children in South Africa have spoken but no written proficiency in Zulu (L1), yet are required to learn to spell English (L2) via English-only literacy instruction. Little research exists on emergent bilingual's phonological awareness (PA) and spelling development, with no L1 formal literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Spelling, Phonemes