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Martin, Katherine I. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Orthographic knowledge, the general ability to learn, store, and use information about the orthographic form of words (Stanovich & West, 1989), is a crucial skill for supporting literacy. Although the development of first language (L1) orthographic awareness is impacted by the characteristics of a learner's L1 writing system, relatively little…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Knowledge Level, Literacy Education, English (Second Language)
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Hermanto, Nicola; Moreno, Sylvain; Bialystok, Ellen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
Anglophone children in Grades 2 and 5 who attended an intensive French immersion program were examined for linguistic and metalinguistic ability in English and French. Measures of linguistic proficiency (vocabulary and grammatical knowledge) were consistently higher in English and remained so even after 5 years of immersion education in French.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Immersion Programs, Metalinguistics, Semantics