Development of copying skills in L2 adult English learners with emergent print literacy

Situated at a Northern California adult school, this study offers insight into the developmental process of adult emergent print literacy development in an L2 context, with specific attention to the earliest stages. Focused on four adult students each having 0–1 year of formal L1 education, the rese...
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Situated at a Northern California adult school, this study offers insight into the developmental process of adult emergent print literacy development in an L2 context, with specific attention to the earliest stages. Focused on four adult students each having 0–1 year of formal L1 education, the researcher documented instances of copying classroom text over a 5-month period. In alignment with children’s orthographic development, the findings indicate that adults new to writing may also progress along a similar trajectory of written shape production, relying on both motor skill development and the subsequent integration of a perceptual-motor component. Ausführliche Beschreibung