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Cross-Language Transfer of Reading Ability: Evidence from Taiwanese Ninth-Grade Adolescents
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Chuang, Hui-Kai; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Dixon, L. Quentin – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
How proficiency in reading the first language (L1) influences proficiency in reading in the second language (L2) was explored in this study. Reading scores in Mandarin Chinese (L1) and in English (L2) for 30,000 Taiwanese ninth-grade students were randomly selected from all who took the national Basic Competency Test during a 6-year period in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Statistical Significance, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability