Publications

Publication details [#55377]

Sousa, Diane De and Kirsten Greenop. 2011. Cross-language transfer of spelling strategies in English and Afrikaans Grade 3 children. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 14 (1) : 49–67.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | discourse strategy | language transfer | spelling

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study demonstrates a cross-language relationship for Grade 3 bilingual children's skills to spell in Afrikaans and English, yet with language background and orthographic depth affecting the nature and development of spelling strategies employed to spell in orthographically different first and second languages.