Publications

Publication details [#50079]

Wang, Min and Esther Geva. 2001. The development of basic reading skills in children: a cross-language perspective. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 21 : 182–204.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | crosslinguistic perspective | reading, L1-acquisition of | reading, L2-acquisition of

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues that individual differences in phonological processing abilities, verbal memory, and rapid naming are predictors of first and second language child reading development in various alphabetic and nonalphabetic languages.