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Publication details [#31318]

Holm, Alison and Barbara Dodd. 1996. The effect of first written language on the acquisition of English literacy. Cognition 59 (2) : 119–147.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0010-0277 0021-9924

Annotation

This study supports the hypothesis that English second language learners transfer their literacy processing skills from their first language to English. Thus students with non-alphabetic first language literacy might have difficulties with new, or unfamiliar words when attending universities where English is the medium of instruction.