The Goldilocks of Variability and Complexity: The Acquisition of Mental Orthographic Representations in Emergent Refugee Readers

Refugee adult language learners in the United States need alphabetic print literacy in English in order to successfully integrate into their adoptive societies and find meaningful employment. Accurate spelling and word recognition are important for completing forms about medical history, school pape...

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Main Author: Smyser, Heather
Other Authors: Alt, Mary
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621067
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/621067