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- Title
Reading in multilingual learners of Urdu (L1), English (L2) and Arabic (L3).
- Authors
Mirza, Amna; Gottardo, Alexandra; Chen, Xi
- Abstract
The present study examined the language and literacy skills and their relations to each other in multilingual children, who have a broad range of oral and written language proficiency in each language that they 'know'. Reading and vocabulary skills were tested in 50 Canadian children (ages 6-10 years) who were Urdu-English speakers, learning Arabic. Reading skills were related to within-language oral proficiency and across languages with similar and different orthographies. The results suggest the need for hybrid models of language acquisition that combine language-general and language-specific components. The results also are discussed in terms of the need to consider the language and literacy skills of multilingual individuals in current theories of language and literacy acquisition.
- Subjects
MULTILINGUAL education; MULTILINGUAL persons; MULTILINGUALISM; URDU language; ENGLISH as a foreign language; ARABIC language education; SCRIPTED teaching (Reading); EDUCATION
- Publication
Reading & Writing, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 1, p187
- ISSN
0922-4777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11145-016-9669-1