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Current 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 (cid:1) (cid:1) Editors Current Issues in Bilingualism Cognitive and Socio-linguistic Perspectives 1 3 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] ISBN978-94-007-2326-9 e-ISBN978-94-007-2327-6 DOI10.1007/978-94-007-2327-6 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011938585 #SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2012 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeof beingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScienceþBusinessMedia(www.springer.com) 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. v 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 vii viii Contents 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] ix 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]
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