Cross-linguistic perspectives on second language reading

Publication date: Available online 20 February 2019Source: Journal of NeurolinguisticsAuthor(s): Ludo Verhoeven, Charles Perfetti, Kenneth PughAbstractThroughout the world, many people learn to read in a second language (L2) which can be considered a challenging task given that a script needs to be learned in a language that is not fully acquired yet. The neurocognitive processes of learning to read in an L2 are just beginning to be understood. Across different languages, L2 reading can be seen as a learned sensitivity to the systematic relationships among the surface representations of words and their meanings, and their unification into sentences and text in the target language. It can be assumed that the brain regions that are involved in L2 reading to a large extent converge with first...

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