Visual word recognition by Arab ESL learners: Phonological versus orthographic consonantal influence on vowels
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Raed A. Alguthami
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Morris, Robin K.
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Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of South Carolina
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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138
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Holt, D. Eric; Malovrh, Paul; Warren, Sherry
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-85026-9
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Linguistics
Body granting the degree
University of South Carolina
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2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Education;Arabic;English as a second language;Orthography;Phonology;Second language acquisition;Visual word recognition