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Publication details [#32992]

Connors, K., François Pichette and Norman Segalowitz. 2003. Impact of Maintaining L1 Reading Skills on L2 Reading Skill Development in Adults: Evidence from Speakers of Serbo-Croatian Learning French. The Modern Language Journal 87 (3) : 391–403.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

reading comprehension | reading, L1-acquisition of | reading, L2-acquisition of | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0026-7902

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study suggests that maintaining first language reading skills enhances the transfer of reading skills and thus affects second language reading ability. The study draws on the results from a longitudinal study carried out over a 1-year period with Bosnian learners of French as a second language.