Development of L2 Intraword Orthographic Sensitivity and Decoding Skills.  

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Koda, Keiko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Modern Language Journal (sebagian Full Text & ada di JSTOR) vol. 83 no. 1 (Jan. 1999), page 51-64.
Topik: Orthographic Sensitivity; Decoding Skills; Second Language Learners
Fulltext: Vol 83 no 1 pp.51-64.pdf (468.24KB)

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This study examines orthographic sensitivity among adult second language (L2) learners with diverse first language (LI) backgrounds. The specific purposes are three-fold: (a) to deter- mine whether there are differences among adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) with alphabetic and non-alphabetic LI backgrounds in their intraword structural sensitivity, (b) to explore specific ways in which such sensitivity differs among LI and L2 readers of English, and (c) to examine the extent to which the sensitivity affects decoding performance among ESL participants. The findings suggest that (a) LI alphabetic experience promotes L2 intraword structural sensitivity; (b) ESL learners, regardless of their LI back- grounds, are strongly inclined to use visual familiarity as a primary cue during orthographic processing; (c) the ability to detect orthographic constraint violations separates L2 from LI readers; and (d) qualitative differences in LI processing experience are directly associated with procedural variations in L2 decoding, but such variations do not always result in quanti- tative differences in decoding performance.

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