80700
Seminar: Second Language Acquisition: Reading in a Non-native Language - 3 Credits

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Fall 2006
Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Graduate Center  of The City University of New York

80700 Seminar: Second Language Acquisition: Reading in a Non-native Language
Tue 4:15-6:15pm

Instructor: Elaine Klein

The focus of this seminar will be non-native language (NNL) reading development. We will read and discuss recent research related to such questions as the following: 

• What is the relationship between native language (NL) and NNL reading skills? Relatedly: to what extent can second language learners with minimal NL reading skills learn to read successfully in the NNL (i.e. with or without NL support)?

 • Are the prerequisite skills for beginning older NNL readers the same as those for emergent NL readers (e.g. phonemic awareness).

 • To what extent and how are NL reading processes transferred to NNL reading and what are some of the consequences? Relatedly: how are orthographic and phonological processes affected when NL and NNL differ orthographically?

 • What are the relative contributions of NL and NNL lexical and syntactic knowledge/processing on NNL reading? 

 • To what extent and how does input modification (e.g. lexical and/or syntactic) affect NNL reading?

 • What is the relationship between NNL listening comprehension (i.e. aural skills) and NNL reading?

 Other questions and topics related to NNL reading development can be included, depending on the interests of the class.

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