Visual word recognition by Arab ESL learners: Phonological versus orthographic consonantal influence on vowels
[Thesis]
Raed A. Alguthami
Morris, Robin K.
University of South Carolina
2016
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Committee members: Holt, D. Eric; Malovrh, Paul; Warren, Sherry
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-85026-9
Ph.D.
Linguistics
University of South Carolina
2016
The current study is on second language acquisition (SLA), and the focus is on the process of visual word recognition in English by Arab learners of English as a second language (ESL). Arab ESL learners have poor performance in their visual word recognition in English, which has been explicated in terms of their poor spelling knowledge of English words. The goal of the current study was to show that Arab ESL learners' visual word recognition in English is also influenced by properties of English influencing American English (AE) native speakers' visual word recognition.
Linguistics; English as a Second Language; Nonsense words; Phonological analysis; Word recognition; Vowels; Phonemes; English as a second language learning; Phonological rules; Response time (Psychology); Naming; Middle Eastern studies; Spelling; Native speakers; Orthography; American English; Lexical decision task; Grapheme phoneme correspondence
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Education;Arabic;English as a second language;Orthography;Phonology;Second language acquisition;Visual word recognition