The development of bilingual children's early spelling in English
The development of bilingual children's early spelling in English
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-0663.98.4.868
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发表时间：
2006-11-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Lau, Lily H. -S.
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作者：
Liow, Susan J. Rickard;Lau, Lily H. -S.
By using an extended version of R. Treiman, M. Cassar, and A. Zukowski's (1994) flaps spplling task (wa_er, is it t or d in water?), the authors investigated the metalinguistic awareness of 6-year-old bilingual children from 3 different language backgrounds (LBs): English-LB (English-L1, Mandarin-L2), Chinese-LB (Mandarin-L1, English L2), and Malay-LB (Bahasa Malaysia-L1, English-L2). Treiman et al. found that unilingual English-speaking children's performance was poorer on flapped words than on control words and better on /d/ flaps than on /t/ flaps, suggesting phonology is salient even for beginners. The data for bilinguals revealed predictable group differences in the use of orthographic and phonological awareness for early spellings, even though the children were all attending the same English-medium kindergarten. Possible educational implications for linguistic minority children are briefly discussed.
