Low-Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition

Research, Policy, and Practice
Proceedings of the Second Annual Forum
Published by The Literacy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University

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Contents

Foreword
Mark Emblidge

RESEARCH

Social and Cultural Capital at School: The Case of a Somali Teenage Girl
Martha H. Bigelow

Development of Word Recognition Skills of Adult L2 Beginning Readers
Jeanne Kurvers

Literacy and Word Boundaries
Jeanne Kurvers, Roeland van Hout, and Ton Vallen

Memory, Second Language Reading, and Lexicon: A Comparison Between Successful and Less Successful Adults and Children
Jeanne Kurvers and Ineke Van de Craats

A Reading Components Assessment of English Language Literacy Learners in U.S. Prisons
Bill Muth

The Impact of Alphabetic Print Literacy Level on Oral Second Language Acquisition
Elaine Tarone, Martha Bigelow, and Kit Hansen

The Role of Literacy in the Development of L2 Morpho-Syntax from an Organic Grammar Perspective
Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten

Obstacles on Highway L2
Ineke Van de Craats

POLICY

Literacy in East Timnor
Danielle Boon

A More Perfect Union: A National Citizenship Plan
Jeff Chenoweth

Adult ESOL in England: Policy, Practice, and Research
James Simpson

PRACTICE

Professional Development for Practitioners Working with Adult English Language Learners with Limited Literacy
Joy Kreeft Peyton, Miriam Burt, Sharon McKay, Kirsten Schaetzel, Lynda Terrill, Sarah Young, Judith Alamprese, and Andy Nash

Teaching, Learning, and Speaking: Observation and Assessing Oral Language Production of the Non-literate Adult Learner in the Second Language Classroom
Susanna Strube

Recommendations to Further the Field of Low-educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition – for Adults in the Areas of Research, Practice, and Public Policy