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- Title
Native Language Phonological Skills in Low-Proficiency Second Language Learners.
- Authors
Borodkin, Katy; Faust, Miriam
- Abstract
This study investigated the link between low second language performance and difficulties with native language phonological processing. Participants were native Hebrew speakers, 19-31 years of age, who learned English as a second language in a school setting. Individuals with dyslexia performed below high-proficiency second language learners on each of four tasks assessing native language phonological processing, whereas low-proficiency second language learners were disadvantaged compared to high-proficiency second language learners on only two of the tasks: pseudoword repetition and tip-of-the-tongue naming. These results indicate that both individuals with dyslexia and low-proficiency second language learners have a weakness in native language phonological processing. The weakness in low-proficiency second language learners, however, is evident in a more limited set of skills compared to individuals with dyslexia.
- Subjects
SECOND language acquisition; BILINGUALISM; PHONOLOGY; SHORT-term memory; LANGUAGE research; ENGLISH language education; ENGLISH as a foreign language
- Publication
Language Learning, 2014, Vol 64, Issue 1, p132
- ISSN
0023-8333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lang.12032