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Davis, Stephen; Ballinger, Susan; Sarkar, Mela – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2019
French immersion programs in Saskatchewan have traditionally served to further the goals of additive bilingualism between Canada's two official languages, French and English. Whereas these programs have historically consisted of predominantly Anglophone populations, recent trends in immigration have contributed to the increasingly diverse…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, English
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Walter, Catherine – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
In examining reading comprehension in a second language (L2), I have demonstrated that the prevailing metaphor of transfer of skills is misleading, and that what happens is access to an already existing general cognitive skill. There is evidence in first language (L1) and in L2 that accessing this skill when reading in an alphabetic language…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Oral Language