Effects of variations in orthographic information on Asian and American readers' English text reading

Reading and Writing

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 345-379

  Jackson, Nancy Ewald ^a   Chen, Huanwen ^a   Goldsberry, Lonie ^a   Kim, Ahyoung ^a   Vanderwerff, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Cross language study; EFL (English as a foreign language) Reading; Korean; Orthography; Second language reading; Text reading speed; Word reading strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007346593     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008049401671     Document Type: Article

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