Table Of ContentCurrent Issues in Bilingualism
LITERACYSTUDIES
VOLUME5
SeriesEditor:
R.MalateshaJoshi,TexasA&MUniversity,USA
EditorialBoard:
LinneaEhri,CUNYGraduateSchool,USA
GeorgeHynd,PurdueUniversity,USA
RichardOlson,UniversityofColorado,USA
PieterReitsma,VrijeUniversityAmsterdam,theNetherlands
RebeccaTreiman,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis,USA
UshaGoswami,UniversityofCambridge,UK
JaneOakhill,UniversityofSussex,Brighton,UK
PhilipSeymour,UniversityofDundee,UK
GuinevereEden,GeorgetownUniversityMedicalCenter,USA
CatherineMcBrideChang,ChineseUniversityofHongKong,China
While language defines humanity, literacy defines civilization. Understandably,
illiteracyordifficultiesinacquiringliteracyskillshavebecomeamajorconcernof
our technological society. A conservative estimate of the prevalence of literacy
problemswouldputthefigureatmorethanabillionpeopleintheworld.Because
of the seriousness of the problem, research in literacy acquisition and its break-
down is pursued with enormous vigor and persistence by experts from diverse
backgrounds such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and educa-
tion. This, ofcourse, hasresulted in a plethora ofdata, and consequently ithas
becomedifficulttointegratethisabundanceofinformationintoacoherentbody
becauseoftheartificialbarriersthatexistamongdifferentprofessionalspecialties.
The purpose of the proposed series is to bring together the available research
studiesintoacoherentbodyofknowledge.Publicationsinthisseriesareintended
for use by educators, clinicians and research scientists in the above-mentioned
specialties. Some of the titles suitable for the Series are: fMRI, brain imaging
techniquesandreadingskills,orthographyandliteracy;andresearchbasedtech-
niquesforimprovingdecoding,vocabulary,spelling,andcomprehensionskills.
AcompletelistoftitlespublishedinthisseriescanbeviewedbygoingtothefollowingURL:
http://www.springer.com/series/7206
Mark Leikin Mila Schwartz Yishai Tobin
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Editors
Current Issues
in Bilingualism
Cognitive and Socio-linguistic Perspectives
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Editors
MarkLeikin MilaSchwartz
UniversityofHaifa ResearchandEvaluationAuthority
FacultyofEducation OranimAcademicCollegeofEducation
DepartmentofLearningDisabilities KiryatTivon
Haifa Israel
Israel
[email protected] EdmondJ.SafraBrainResearch
CenterfortheStudyofLearning
Disabilities
UniversityofHaifa
Haifa
Israel
[email protected]
YishaiTobin
Ben-GurionUniversityoftheNegev
DepartmentofForeignLiteratures&
Linguistics
Be’erSheva
Israel
[email protected]
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DOI10.1007/978-94-007-2327-6
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Abstract
CurrentIssuesinBilingualismaddressesimportantcognitiveandsocio-linguis-
ticissuesrelatedtothefieldofbilingualismandmultilingualism.Themotiva-
tionforthisanthologyhasrisenfromtwogeneralphenomena:(1)thegrowing
interest in bilingualism and multicultural societies due to rising worldwide
immigrationandanincreasinginterestinethnicminoritiesandtheirlanguage
problems, particularly in the field of literacy and education; (2) the unique
language situation in Israel, that represents one of the more complex cases of
amultilingualandmulticulturalsociety,whichincludesthecoexistenceoftwo
officiallanguages,HebrewandArabic,Englishthatiswidelyusedinnumerous
contexts, and the native languages of large groups of immigrants such as
Russian, Amharic and other languages. Therefore we view Israel as a mosaic
of multilingualism and multiculturalism and thus a natural laboratory for
studies dealing with these complex topics. This volume discusses such themes
as the education of immigrant children and adolescents, the development of
bilinguals with specific language and reading impairment, bi-literacy and tri-
literacyacquisitioninthecontextofacomplexmultilingualandmulticultural
society,andneuro-cognitiveaspectsofbilinguallanguageprocessing,inparti-
cularinthefieldofreadingandreadingdisabilities.
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Contents
1 CurrentIssuesinBilingualism:AComplexApproach
toaMultidimensionalPhenomenon........................... 1
MarkLeikin,MilaSchwartz,andYishaiTobin
PartI LanguageandLiteracyinMultilingualSociety
2 RelevanceoftheLinguisticCodingDifferenceHypothesistoEnglish
asanAdditionalLanguageofLiteracyinIsrael.................. 21
JaninaKahn-Horwitz,RichardL.Sparks,andZahavaGoldstein
3 LiteracyReflexesofArabicDiglossia ......................... 43
ElinorSaiegh-Haddad
4 MultilingualismAmongIsraeliArabs,andtheNeuropsychology
ofReadinginDifferentLanguages............................ 57
ZoharEviatarandRaphiqIbrahim
PartII AcademicAchievementofChildrenComingfromImmigrant
Families
5 Cognitive,Language,andLiteracyDevelopmentinSocio-culturally
VulnerableSchoolChildren–TheCaseofEthiopianIsraeli
Children................................................ 77
MichalShanyandEstherGeva
6 SecondGenerationImmigrants:ASocio-LinguisticApproachof
LinguisticDevelopmentWithintheFrameworkofFamilyLanguage
Policy.................................................. 119
MilaSchwartz
7 UnderstandingLanguageAchievementofImmigrantsinSchools:
TheRoleofMultipleAcademicLanguages ..................... 137
TamarLevinandElanaShohamy
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PartIII MultilingualAcquisitionandProcessing
8 AdjectiveInflectioninHebrew:APsychollinguisticStudy
ofSpeakersofRussian,EnglishandArabicComparedwithNative
HebrewSpeakers ........................................ 159
IrisAlfi-ShabtayandDoritRavid
9 VerbInflectionsasIndicatorsofBilingualSLI:QualitativeVs.
QuantitativeMeasurements ................................ 179
SharonArmon-Lotem,GalitAdam,AnatBlass,JonathanFine,
EfratHarel,ElinorSaiegh-Haddad,andJoelWalters
10 ProceduralandDeclarativeMemoryintheAcquisition
ofMorphologicalKnowledge:AModelforSecondLanguage
AcquisitioninAdults ..................................... 201
SaraFermanandAviKarni
11 ReadinginL1andL2:BehavioralandElectrophysiologicalEvidence:
AComparisonBetweenRegularandDyslexicReaders ........... 217
ZviaBreznitzandLiatFabian
12 IdentificationofGrammaticalFunctionsinTwoLanguages ....... 241
MarkLeikinandElinaRitvas
Contributors
GalitAdam TheOpenUniversity,MiltonKeynes,England,
[email protected]
IrisAlfi-Shabtay TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel,[email protected]
SharonArmon-Lotem Bar-IlanUniversity,Ramat-Gan,Israel,
[email protected]
AnatBlass Bar-IlanUniversity,Ramat-Gan,Israel,[email protected]
ZviaBreznitz EdmondJ.SafraBrainResearchCenterfortheStudyof
LearningDisabilities,UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel,
[email protected]
ZoharEviatar DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel,
[email protected]
LiatFabian EdmondJ.SafraBrainResearchCenterfortheStudyofLearning
Disabilities,UniversityofHaifa,Israel,[email protected]
SaraFerman DepartmentofCommunicationDisorders,SacklerFacultyof
Medicine,TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel,[email protected]
JonathanFine Bar-IlanUniversity,Ramat-Gan,Israel,[email protected]
EstherGeva UniversityofToronto,Toronto,ON,Canada,
[email protected]
ZahavaGoldstein FacultyofEducation,UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel,
[email protected]
EfratHarel Bar-IlanUniversity,Ramat-Gan,Israel,[email protected]
RaphiqIbrahim DepartmentofLearningDisabilities,UniversityofHaifa,
Haifa,Israel,[email protected]
JaninaKahn-Horwitz OranimAcademicCollegeofEducation,Edmond
J.SafraBrainResearchCenterfortheStudyofLearningDisabilities,
UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel,[email protected]
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x Contributors
AviKarni LaboratoryforFunctionalBrainImagingandLearningResearch,
FacultiesofScienceandEducation,UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel,
[email protected]
MarkLeikin LaboratoryforNeurocognitiveResearchofGiftedness,
DepartmentofLearningDisabilities,FacultyofEducation,Universityof
Haifa,Haifa,Israel,[email protected]
TamarLevin TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel,[email protected]
DoritRavid TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel,[email protected]
ElinaRitvas DepartmentofLearningDisabilities,FacultyofEducation,
UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel,[email protected]
ElinorSaiegh-Haddad DepartmentofEnglishLinguistics,Bar-IlanUniversity,
Ramat-Gan,Israel,[email protected]
MilaSchwartz ResearchandEvaluationAuthority,OranimAcademicCollege
ofEducation,KiryatTivon,Israel;EdmondJ.SafraBrainResearchCenterfor
theStudyofLearningDisabilities,UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel,
[email protected]
MichalShany DepartmentofLearningDisabilities,FacultyofEducation,
UniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel,[email protected]
ElanaShohamy TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel,
[email protected]
RichardL.Sparks CollegeofMountSt.Joseph,DelhiTownship,OH,USA,
[email protected]
YishaiTobin DepartmentofForeignLiteratures&Linguistics,Ben-Gurion
University,Be’erSheva,Israel,[email protected]
JoelWalters Bar-IlanUniversity,Ramat-Gan,Israel,[email protected]
