Hui?Kai Chuang|R. Malatesha Joshi|L. Quentin Dixon
Cross-Language Transfer of Reading Ability
National Taiwan Normal University|Texas A&M University|Texas A&M University
proficiency reading first language l1 influences proficiency reading second language l2 explored study reading scores mandarin chinese l1 english l2 30000 taiwanese ninthgrade students randomly selected took national basic competency test 6year period taiwan results regression analyses showed proficiency l1 reading predicts statistical significance l2 reading proficiency whose scores analyzed addition participants gender school district also played small statistically significant roles affecting crosslanguage transfer reading ability results discussed light cumminss linguistic interdependence hypothesis