Acknowledgements
Contributors
1. Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti: An Introduction to Researching Second Language Writing Systems
Part 1: Writing a Second Language Writing System
2. Nobuko Chikamatsu: L2 Japanese Kanji Memory and Retrieval: An Experiment on the Tip-of-the-pen (TOP) Phenomenon
3. Ans Van Berkel: The Role of the Phonological Strategy in Learning to Spell in English as a Second Language
4. Mick Randall: Orthographic Knowledge and First Language Reading: Evidence from Single Word Dictation from Chinese and Malaysian Users of English as a Foreign Language
5. Harold Somers: Learner Corpora and Handwriting
6. Takeshi Okada: A Corpus-based Study of Spelling Errors of Japanese EFL Writers with Reference to Errors Occurring in Word-initial and Word-final Positions
7. Stephan Schmid: Spelling and Pronunciation in Migrant Children: The Case of Italian-Swiss German Bilinguals
Part 2: Reading a Second Language Writing System
8. Phil Scholfield and Gloria Shu-Mei Chwo: Are the L1 and L2 Word Reading Processes Affected More by Writing System or Instruction?
9. Nobuhiko Akamatsu: Effects of Second Language Reading Proficiency and First Language Orthography on Second Language Word Recognition
10. Walter J.B. Van Heuven: Bilingual Interactive Activation Models of Word Recognition in a Second Language
11. Miho Sasaki: The Effect of L1 Reading Processes on L2: A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Italian and Japanese Users of English
Part 3: Awareness of Language and Second Language Writing Systems
12. Keiko Koda: Learning to Read Across Writing Systems: Transfer, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Second-language Reading Development
13. Benedetta Bassetti: Effects of Writing Systems on Second Language Awareness: Word Awareness in English Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language
14. Lily H.-S. Lau and Susan J. Rickard Liow: Phonological Awareness and Spelling Skill Development in Bilingual Biscriptal Children
Part 4: Teaching a Second Language Writing System
15. Therese Dufresne and Diana Masny: Different and Differing Views on Conceptualising Writing System Research and Education
16. Tina Hickey: Second Language Writing Systems: Minority Languages and Reluctant Readers
17. Vivian Cook: Written Language and Foreign Language Teaching
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