Second Language Writing Systems

Vivian Cook is Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Newcastle, previously having taught in London and Essex. After writing EFL course-books, he concentrated on linguistics and language learning in books such as Chomsky’s Universal Grammar and Second Language Learning and Language Teaching, and developed the concept of multi-competence through books such as Portraits of the L2 User.  He was founding President of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) . He has been exploring the English writing system through articles and books such as The English Writing System and Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary. Benedetta Bassetti holds a PhD from the University of Essex, where she wrote her thesis on Chinese as a Second Language Writing System. She previously has studied oriental languages and applied linguistics in Rome and London. She has presented her research at various international conferences.

• Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti: An Introduction to Researching Second Language Writing SystemsPart 1: Writing a Second Language Writing System2. Nobuko Chikamatsu: L2 Japanese Kanji Memory and Retrieval: An Experiment on the Tip-of-the-pen (TOP) Phenomenon3. Ans Van Berkel: The Role of the Phonological Strategy in Learning to Spell in English as a Second Language4. Mick Randall: Orthographic Knowledge and First Language Reading: Evidence from Single Word Dictation from Chinese and Malaysian Users of English as a Foreign Language5. Harold Somers: Learner Corpora and Handwriting6. 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 BilingualsPart 2: Reading a Second Language Writing System8. 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 Recognition10. Walter J.B. Van Heuven: Bilingual Interactive Activation Models of Word Recognition in a Second Language11. Miho Sasaki: The Effect of L1 Reading Processes on L2: A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Italian and Japanese Users of EnglishPart 3: Awareness of Language and Second Language Writing Systems12. Keiko Koda: Learning to Read Across Writing Systems: Transfer, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Second-language Reading Development13. Benedetta Bassetti: Effects of Writing Systems on Second Language Awareness: Word Awareness in English Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language14. Lily H.-S. Lau and Susan J. Rickard Liow: Phonological Awareness and Spelling Skill Development in Bilingual Biscriptal ChildrenPart 4: Teaching a Second Language Writing System15. Therese Dufresne and Diana Masny: Different and Differing Views on Conceptualising Writing System Research and Education16. Tina Hickey: Second Language Writing Systems: Minority Languages and Reluctant Readers17. Vivian Cook: Written Language and Foreign Language TeachingIndex