Second Language Writing Systems

Acknowledgements

Contributors

1. Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti: An Introduction to Researching Second Language Writing Systems

Part 1: Writing a Second Language Writing System

2. Nobuko Chikamatsu: L2 Japanese Kanji Memory and Retrieval: An Experiment on the Tip-of-the-pen (TOP) Phenomenon

3. Ans Van Berkel: The Role of the Phonological Strategy in Learning to Spell in English as a Second Language

4. Mick Randall: Orthographic Knowledge and First Language Reading: Evidence from Single Word Dictation from Chinese and Malaysian Users of English as a Foreign Language

5. Harold Somers: Learner Corpora and Handwriting

6. Takeshi Okada: A Corpus-based Study of Spelling Errors of Japanese EFL Writers with Reference to Errors Occurring in Word-initial and Word-final Positions

7. Stephan Schmid: Spelling and Pronunciation in Migrant Children: The Case of Italian-Swiss German Bilinguals

Part 2: Reading a Second Language Writing System

8. Phil Scholfield and Gloria Shu-Mei Chwo: Are the L1 and L2 Word Reading Processes Affected More by Writing System or Instruction?

9. Nobuhiko Akamatsu: Effects of Second Language Reading Proficiency and First Language Orthography on Second Language Word Recognition

10. Walter J.B. Van Heuven: Bilingual Interactive Activation Models of Word Recognition in a Second Language

11. Miho Sasaki: 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

12. Keiko Koda: Learning to Read Across Writing Systems: Transfer, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Second-language Reading Development

13. Benedetta Bassetti: Effects of Writing Systems on Second Language Awareness: Word Awareness in English Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language

14. Lily H.-S. Lau and Susan J. Rickard Liow: Phonological Awareness and Spelling Skill Development in Bilingual Biscriptal Children

Part 4: Teaching a Second Language Writing System

15. Therese Dufresne and Diana Masny: Different and Differing Views on Conceptualising Writing System Research and Education

16. Tina Hickey: Second Language Writing Systems: Minority Languages and Reluctant Readers

17. Vivian Cook: Written Language and Foreign Language Teaching

Index