A Source of Cognitive Confusion for Beginning Readers: Learning in a Second Language.

Downing, John

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Publication Date: 1984

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A Source of Cognitive Confusion for Beginning Readers: Learning in a Second Language.

Downing, John

Reading Teacher, v37 n4 p366-70 Jan 1984

Reports that readiness tests given to children in bilingual villages in Papua New Guinea showed that children learning to read in an unfamiliar language were more confused than were children who had never had literacy instruction. (FL)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Reading Readiness Tests, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Papua New Guinea

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