The effect of first written language on the acquisition of English literacy

Holm, Alison; Dodd, Barbara

doi:10.1016/0010-0277(95)00691-5

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“…As pertains to the present study, because the structure of the Chinese language does not guarantee that characters with similar form retain similar phonology, or that characters with similar phonology have similar form, it is possible that native speakers of Chinese, and other essentially logographic languages do not rely on form information in English as consistently as do native speakers of alphabetic languages (Taft, 2002). The influence of pinyin-based instruction in Chinese on performance on phonological tasks in English provides support for this claim (Holm & Dodd, 1996).…”

Section: The Influence Of L1 (Serbian or Chinese) On The Mastery Of Lmentioning

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Monolingual and bilingual recognition of regular and irregular English verbs: Sensitivity to form similarity varies with first language experience

Basnight-Brown

Chen

Shu

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Journal of Memory and Language

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We used a cross-modal priming procedure to explore the processing of irregular and regular English verb forms in both monolinguals and bilinguals (Serbian-English, Chinese-English). Materials included irregular nested stem (drawn-DRAW), irregular change stem (ran-RUN), and regular past tense-present tense verb pairs that were either low (guided-GUIDE) or high (pushed-PUSH) in resonance, a measure of semantic richness. Overall, semantic richness of irregular verbs (nested and irregular change) and of regular verbs (high and low resonance) was matched. Native speakers of English revealed comparable facilitation across regularity and greater facilitation for nested than change stem irregulars. Like native speakers, Serbian, but not Chinese bilinguals matched for proficiency, showed facilitation due to form overlap between irregular past and present tense forms with a nested stem. Unlike native speakers, neither group showed reliable facilitation to stem change irregulars. Results demonstrate the influence of first language on inflectional processing in a second language.Keywords semantic density; language transfer; morphological facilitation; cross modal priming; regular past tense formations; irregular past tense formations; mastery of inflection in a second language There is a long-standing debate in the word recognition literature as to whether native speakers of a language process irregular (e.g., ran-run) and regular (e.g., walked-walk) verb forms by common (single) or different (dual-route) mechanisms. Those who advocate a single processing system argue that processing of all words benefits from the extent to which words that are similar in form tend to be similar in meaning (

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Section: The Influence Of L1 (Serbian or Chinese) On The Mastery Of Lmentioning

confidence: 50%

Monolingual and bilingual recognition of regular and irregular English verbs: Sensitivity to form similarity varies with first language experience

Basnight-Brown

Chen

Shu

et al. 2007

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…Results indicated an advantage on the part of Korean learners when naming real and pseudo-words thanks to their alphabetic system. Holm and Dodd (1996), in their study on reading and spelling, found similar transfer effects in the groups of adult learners tested. A group of students from Hong Kong without knowledge of Pinyin (the official phonetic system for transcribing the Mandarin pronunciations of Chinese characters into the Latin alphabet) obtained worse results when tested on reading and spelling of pseudo-words than a group of Chinese Mandarin students who had been taught Chinese through Pinyin (alphabetic system).…”

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“…Several studies carried out with adults report transfer effects in this type of age groups (Akamatsu, 2003;Holm & Dodd, 1996;Li & Suen, 2015;Wang & Koda, 2005). Chinese adult learners tend to rely on their L1 literacy experience and on a visual whole-word strategy when reading or spelling (Wang & Geva, 2003).…”

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“…Even if the effect of the alphabetic-logographic distinction over spelling accuracy (Holm & Dodd, 1996) as well as over reading (Akamatsu, 2003;Holm & Dodd, 1996;Wang & Koda, 2005) has already been investigated, none of these studies have analyzed the impact of language typology on spelling errors in an L2 lexical availability task, a gap which will be filled in the present investigation.…”

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“…Concurrent validity will be achieved by further exploring the beneficial effect of language proximity on language learners' lexical availability, something previously attested in L2 Spanish but scarcely investigated in L2 English. In addition, linguistic distance has been a variable investigated in L2 spelling studies, in particular in populations with logographic writing systems (Akamatsu, 2003;Holm & Dodd, 1996;Li & Suen, 2015;Wang & Koda, 2005). However, none of those studies have analyzed the impact of language typology on spelling errors in a L2 lexical availability task.…”

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The effects of language typology on L2 lexical availability and spelling accuracy

Martínez-Adrián

Puerto

2017

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This paper explores whether language typology plays any role in lexical availability and spelling accuracy in L2 English. Two groups of adult speakers were compared: a group of native speakers of a language typologically distant from English with a logographic writing system (Chinese; n=13) vs. a group of native speakers of a language typologically closer to English with an alphabetic system (Spanish; n=14). All participants performed a lexical availability task (Carcedo González, 1998a) which was later on analyzed in terms of the 'total number of words' and the 'total number of words containing spelling mistakes' per each of the 15 semantic categories included. Spanish speakers displayed larger available lexica and fewer spelling mistakes than Chinese speakers, an outcome which would confirm the positive influence of L1-L2 proximity on L2 lexical availability and the deleterious effect of having a non-alphabetic L1 writing system on L2 spelling accuracy.

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The effect of first written language on the acquisition of English literacy

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Monolingual and bilingual recognition of regular and irregular English verbs: Sensitivity to form similarity varies with first language experience

Monolingual and bilingual recognition of regular and irregular English verbs: Sensitivity to form similarity varies with first language experience

The effects of language typology on L2 lexical availability and spelling accuracy

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