The Role of Explicit Instruction and Instructional Design in Promoting Phonemic Awareness Development and Transfer From Spanish to English

Second‐language learners’ advantage in metalinguistic awareness: A question of languages’ characteristics

“…They also reveal that morphological awareness and syntactic awareness seem to be language‐specific skills. Thus, in this view, it seems essential to take languages' similarities and dissimilarities into account because the more the two languages are similar in their structural components or in their writing systems, the more positive cross‐linguistic transfer may appear (e.g., Chan, ; Kantola & Van Gompel, ; Pollard‐Durodola & Simmons, ). Nevertheless, several studies also reported positive cross‐linguistic transfer on linguistic aspects that are dissimilar in both languages or across different‐script languages, leading us to moderate the claim about the importance of languages' similarities.…”

Preparing English Language Learners for the Mainstream: Academic Language and Literacy Practices in Two Junior High School ESL Classrooms

“…A recent study by Friend and her colleagues (2009) illustrated that teachers find that L1 support significantly aids student learning. Furthermore, there a significant body of work asserts that students' language and literacy skills as well as their content and concept knowledge ''transfer'' from their L1 to additional languages that they learn (e.g., Cummins, 1979aCummins, , 1979bCummins, , 1984Dominguez de Ramirez & Shapiro, 2007;Dressler & Kamil, 2006;Pollard-Durodola & Simmons, 2009;Proctor, August, Carlo, & Snow, 2006). One branch of this research has shown that bilingual students who view their L1 as a resource and who use strategies such as their knowledge of cognates (i.e., words in two different languages that are pronounced similarly and have similar meanings) to determine meaning are more successful readers Jimenez, García, & Pearson, 1996;Nagy, García, Durgunoglu, & Hancin-Bhatt, 1993).…”

Metalinguistic development in French learners enrolled in an immersion programme: A longitudinal study

“…Considering the characteristics of each language is a second way to explain the conflicting conclusions Pollard-Durodola & Simmons, 2009) because the cross-linguistic transfer of knowledge and abilities may be facilitated by the similarities between the two languages. Cross-linguistic studies on metalinguistic abilities have shown more positive effects when languages have particular phonological, syntactic or morphological properties Chen et al, 2008).…”