Literacy and second language oracy

Author(s)

• Tarone, Elaine
• Bigelow, Martha
• Hansen, Kit

Bibliographic Information

Literacy and second language oracy

Elaine Tarone, Martha Bigelow and Kit Hansen

（Oxford applied linguistics）

Oxford University Press, 2009

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-132) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Learners who cannot decode alphabetic script have been left out of the SLA research enterprise, at considerable cost to our understanding of the human capacity for language learning. This book offers research evidence documenting the significant impact of low literacy skill on adolescents' processing of oral L2 input and acquisition. Together with a large body of closely related research in cognitive psychology, the findings lead to a startling conclusion: language processing skills that have been assumed to be universal human traits appear instead to be a product of learners' experience with alphabetic print literacy.

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Details

• NCID: BA90331439
• ISBN:
  • 9780194423007
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: x, 141 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P118.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Second language acquisition
  • LCSH : Literacy
  • LCSH : Fluency (Language learning)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA23637689