Alphabetic and nonalphabetic L1 effects in English word identification: A comparison of Korean and Chinese English L2 learners

Cognition

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-149

  Wang, Min ^a   Koda, Keiko ^b   Perfetti, Charles A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alphabetic and nonalphabetic L1 effects; English word identification; Korean and Chinese English L2 learners

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

WORD IDENTIFICATION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERFORMANCE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SKILL; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING;

EID: 0037364008     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0277(02)00232-9     Document Type: Article

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