bilingual reader
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbilingualandreader
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bilingual
adjective
uk/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/us/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
able to use two languages ...
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reader
noun[C]
uk/ˈriː.dər/us/ˈriː.dɚ/
someone who reads for pleasure, especially a person who reads ...
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(Definition ofbilingualandreaderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Although this was an exploratory study with very few subjects, the implication is that a proficientbilingualreadermay be able to transfer reading acquisition skills across languages.
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Occasionally, however, the less skilled bilingual readers performed better than their monolingual counterparts, especially in phonologically related tasks such as spelling.
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In the working memory task the only difference was the advantage the less skilled bilingual readers had over their monolingual counterparts.
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More recently, this same letter detection pattern has been observed for bilingual readers confronting interlingual homographs such as the aforementioned "pour".
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For bilingual readers homographic ambiguity can result not only from lexical competition within a language but across languages as well.
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However, in the spelling task, the less skilled bilingual readers were more proficient than their monolingual counterparts.
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The logic here is that bilingual readers should perform better than monolingual readers because learning two languages boosts the development of metalinguistic skills.
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Research conducted with bilingual readers examining the relative contributions of all three phonological processing constructs is sparse.
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In the oral cloze tasks there was no difference between the monolingual and bilingual readers.
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Although the less skilled monolingual group showed a poorer performance than the bilingual skilled group, the less skilled bilingual readers did not differ from the monolingual skilled readers.
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Labov (2004) reported evidence that, indeed, bilingual readers tended to be more persistent in decoding than monolinguals.
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