Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 An Introduction to Researching Second Language Writing Systems -- Part 1 Writing a Second LanguageWriting System -- Chapter 2 L2 Japanese Kanji Memory and Retrieval: An Experiment on the Tip-of-the-pen (TOP) Phenomenon -- Chapter 3 The Role of the Phonological Strategy in Learning to Spell in English as a Second Language -- Chapter 4 Orthographic Knowledge and First Language Reading: Evidence from Single Word Dictation from Chinese and Malaysian Users of English as a Foreign Language -- Chapter 5 Learner Corpora and Handwriting -- Chapter 6 A Corpus-based Study of Spelling Errors of Japanese EFLWriters with Reference to Errors Occurring in Word-initial and Word-.nal Positions -- Chapter 7 Spelling and Pronunciation in Migrant Children: The Case of Italian-Swiss German Bilinguals -- Part 2 Reading a Second LanguageWriting System -- Chapter 8 Are the L1 and L2 Word Reading Processes Affected More by Writing System or Instruction? -- Chapter 9 Effects of Second Language Reading Pro.ciency and First Language Orthography on Second Language Word Recognition -- Chapter 10 Bilingual Interactive Activation Models of Word Recognition in a Second Language -- Chapter 11 The Effect of L1 Reading Processes on L2: A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Italian and Japanese Users of English -- Part 3 Awareness of Language andSecond Language WritingSystems -- Chapter 12 Learning to Read Across Writing Systems: Transfer, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Second-language Reading Development -- Chapter 13 Effects of Writing Systems on Second Language Awareness: Word Awareness in English Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language -- Chapter 14 Phonological Awareness and Spelling Skill Development in Bilingual Biscriptal Children -- Part 4 Teaching a Second LanguageWriting System.

Chapter 15 Different and Differing Views on Conceptualising Writing System Research and Education -- Chapter 16 Second Language Writing Systems: Minority Languages and Reluctant Readers -- Chapter 17 Written Language and Foreign Language Teaching -- Index.