Psychology of Language

Reading and Bilingualism 1

Running Head : READING AND BILINGUALISM

Exploring the Link between Reading and Bilingualism

A Meta-analysis of Previous Researches (Name (School (Instructor (Class

Reading and Bilingualism 2

Exploring the Link between Reading and Bilingualism

A Meta-analysis of Previous Researches

Language is an element of culture . Through specific factors such as migration , intermarriages , and enculturation , it is possible that an individual uses a primary language (L1 ) but at the same time is also capable of using another (L2 ) or even more languages in communicating with others . This brings

out the phenomenon of bilingualism , an aspect that has been an interest of psycholinguistics research

Although most researches have concentrated to language acquisition other areas of psycholinguistics are also worth exploring and , if there were one area that requires appropriate attention , it would be reading It can be observed that with the advent of multimedia resources , where people can just watch visuals and hear sounds to derive information reading tends to become just a mere alternative

With these premises , I decided to present three experiments , which tackles reading among bilingual individuals . The first experiment presented was conducted by Saiegh-Haddad and Geva (2008 ) among students who are using English as primary language and Arabic as secondary language , where they explored the relationship of phonological and morphological awareness to reading accuracy . It was revealed by this study that phonological awareness is significantly correlated in the two languages It has also shown that both phonological and morphological awareness in the English language predicted reading...