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- Title
Orthographic and Cognitive Factors in the Concurrent Development of Basic Reading Skills in English and Persian.
- Authors
Gholamain, Mitra; Geva, Esther
- Abstract
According to the "script dependent" hypothesis, accurate word recognition skills develop more slowly in languages with an irregular orthography, such as English, than in regular orthographies, such as Persian. According to the "central processing" hypothesis, basic reading skills in all languages are influenced primarily by underlying cognitive factors. These hypotheses were examined by studying the linguistic, cognitive, and basic reading skills of 70 children in Grades 1-5 learning to read concurrently in English (L1) and Persian (L2). Our findings supported both hypotheses. A consideration of these frameworks as complementary contributes to a cross-linguistic theory of reading skills development in bilingual children.
- Subjects
READING; ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; ENGLISH language; PERSIAN language; SIMILARITY (Language learning); BILINGUALISM
- Publication
Language Learning, 1999, Vol 49, Issue 2, p183
- ISSN
0023-8333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/0023-8333.00087