This study reports on a meta‐analysis to examine how bilingual learners compare with
English monolingual learners on two English spelling outcomes: real‐word spelling and …

The precursors of early English reading success have been widely studied for native English-
speaking students, and those findings have been generalized to the English language …

Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology,
this book investigates children's acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual …

This qualitative study investigates the invented spellings of young EFL writers in terms of the
relationship between phonological awareness and internalized grapheme-phoneme …

Phonological awareness is critical for early reading acquisition across alphabetic as well as
non-alphabetic languages. The grain size of phonological awareness varies with oral …

Phoneme awareness is critical for literacy acquisition in English, but relatively little is known
about the early development of phonological awareness in ESL (English as a second …

Given the importance of statistical power analysis in quantitative research and the repeated
emphasis on it by American Educational Research Association/American Psychological …

This study examined the influence of first language (L1) orthography on bilingual children's
spelling performance in their second language (L2), English. The subtests of spelling and …

This cross-sectional study examines the importance of English phonological and
orthographic processing skills to English word reading and spelling in 3 groups of younger …

Children who enter school with limited proficiency in the language of instruction face a range
of challenges in negotiating this new context, yet limited data have been available to …