Commonalities and differences in word identification skills among learners of english as a second language

Language Learning

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 201-222

  Wang, Min ^a,c   Koda, Keiko ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Human Development ^*

Author keywords

Chinese ESL learners and Korean ESL learners; Frequency effect; Regularity effect; Word identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250361885     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2007.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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