Publications

Publication details [#32952]

Akamatsu, Nobuhiko. 2003. The Effects of First Language Orthographic Features on Second Language Reading in Text. Language Learning 53 (2) : 207–231.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

orthography | reading, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

Chinese | English | Japanese | Persian

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0023-8333

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/lang

Annotation

This study examines the effects of first language orthographic features on second language reading via an analysis of English second language reading by readers of Chinese, Japanese, and Persian backgrounds.