Second Language Writing Systems (Second Language Acquisition (Clevedon, England), 11.)

This book looks at how people learn and use a 2nd language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the 1st and 2nd writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved.It presents the effects of writing systems on language reading and writing and on language awareness. Contents Acknowledgements Contributors Chapter 1: An Introduction to Researching Second Language Writing Systems Part 1: Writing a Second Language Writing System Chapter 2: L2 Japanese Kanji Memory and Retrieval: An Experiment on the Tip-of-the-pen (TOP) Phenomenon Chapter 3: The Role of the Phonological Strategy in Learning to Spell in English as a Second Language Chapter 4: Orthographic Knowledge and First Language Reading: Evidence from Single Word Dictation from Chinese and Malaysian Users of English as a Foreign Language Chapter 5: Learner Corpora and Handwriting Chapter 6: A Corpus-based Study of Spelling Errors of Japanese EFLWriters with Reference to Errors Occurring in Word-initial and Word-final Positions Chapter 7: Spelling and Pronunciation in Migrant Children: The Case of Italian-Swiss German Bilinguals Part 2: Reading a Second Language Writing System Chapter 8: Are the L1 and L2 Word Reading Processes Affected More by Writing System or Instruction? Chapter 9: Effects of Second Language Reading Proficiency and First Language Orthography on Second Language Word Recognition Chapter 10: Bilingual Interactive Activation Models of Word Recognition in a Second Language Chapter 11: The Effect of L1 Reading Processes on L2: A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Italian and Japanese Users of English Part 3: Awareness of Language and Second Language Writing Systems Chapter 12: Learning to Read Across Writing Systems: Transfer, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Second-language Reading Development Chapter 13: Effects of Writing Systems on Second Language Awareness: Word Awareness in English Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language Chapter 14: Phonological Awareness and Spelling Skill Development in Bilingual Biscriptal Children Part 4: Teaching a Second Language Writing System Chapter 15: Different and Differing Views on Conceptualising Writing System Research and Education Chapter 16: Second Language Writing Systems: Minority Languages and Reluctant Readers Chapter 17: Written Language and Foreign Language Teaching Index

Second Language Writing Systems looks at how people learn and use a second language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the first and second writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved. This book presents for the first time the effects of writing systems on language reading and writing and on language awareness, and provides a new platform for discussing bilingualism, biliteracy and writing systems.

The approach is interdisciplinary, with contributions not only from applied linguists and psychologists but also corpus linguists, educators and phoneticians. A variety of topics are covered, from handwriting to spelling, word recognition to the mental lexicon, and language textbooks to metalinguistic awareness. Though most of the studies concern adult L2 learners and users, other populations covered include minority children, immersion students and bilingual children. While the emphasis is on English as the L2 writing system, many other writing systems are analysed as L1 or L2: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Gujarati, Indonesian, Irish, Italian and Japanese. Approaches that are represented include contrastive analysis, transfer, poststructuralism, connectionism and corpus analysis. The readership is SLA and bilingualism researchers, students and teachers around the world; language teachers will also find much food for thought.

Approaches that are represented include contrastive analysis, multi-competence, error analysis, transfer, poststructuralism, connectionism and corpus analysis. The readership is SLA and bilingualism researchers, students and teachers around the world; language teachers also will find much food for thought."--Jacket This is the first book to treat the acquisition and use of a second language writing system. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and writing systems, it investigates how people read, write and analyse a writing system that represents a second language