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Grenfell, Michael; Harris, Vee – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
This article seeks to develop the research agenda of multilingualism and multicompetence by bringing together three research fields and their related methodologies: bilingualism, third language acquisition and language learner strategies. After a brief introduction to each area, it describes a study to explore whether bilingual adolescent students…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Bilingual Students, Multilingualism, Adolescents
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Commissaire, Eva; Duncan, Lynne G.; Casalis, Severine – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
This study explores the nature of orthographic processing skills among French-speaking children in Grades 6 and 8 who are learning English at school as a second language (L2). Two aspects of orthographic processing skills are thought to form a convergent construct in monolingual beginning readers: word-specific knowledge (e.g. "rain-rane") and…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Reading Difficulties, Monolingualism, Literacy