The effects of phonics instruction on L2 phonological decoding and vocabulary learning

Thesis

Phonological decoding, defined as the ability of using the systematic knowledge of a language’s grapheme-phoneme correspondences in order to generate pronunciation based on orthographic context, has been found to be facilitative of the acquisition of reading comprehension in both first language (L1) and second language (L2). Moreover, research into L1 learning has consistently demonstrated a strong relationship between decoding proficiency and vocabulary acquisition. Recently, the relation...

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Authors: Li, S

• Alternative title: An experimental trial on Chinese University EFL learners
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English