Bilingual performance in reading and writing
By: Alister H. Cumming, editor.
Contributors: Cumming, Alister H.
Series: The best of Language learning series
Publisher: Language Learning; Distributed by J. Benjamins Pub.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Ann Arbor; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Language and languages -- Study and teaching.; Bilingualism.; Second language acquisition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Collection of previously published articles.
Table of contents: title: Awareness of text structure : effect on recall / Patricia L. Carrell; title: Second-language readers' memory for narrative texts / Yukie Horiba, Paul W. van den Broek, and Charles R. Fletcher; title: The relationship between first- and second-language reading comprehension of occupation-specific texts / Janet Donin and Maria Silva; title: Phonological recoding in the first- and second-language reading of skilled bilinguals / Norman Segalowitz and Martine Hébert; title: Language proficiency, writing ability, and composing strategies / Ann Raimes; title: Writing expertise and second-language proficiency / Alister Cumming; title: Effects of first language on second-language writing / Hiroe Kobayashi and Carol Rinnert; title: Evidence of transfer and loss in developing second-language writers / Joan Eisterhold Carson and Phyllis A. Kuehn; title: Orality-literacy and group differences in second-language acquisition / Lynne Hansen-Strain; title: Effects on ESL reading of teaching cultural content schemata / Pamela Floyd and Patricia L. Carrell; title: Acquiring literacy in a second language : the effect of book-based programs / Warwick B. Elley.