The+Bilingual+Reading+Process

__ **What transfers from the native language to English?** __
Teaching content area subjets to adolescents with linguistic differences does not mean that students come with no knowledge. Bilingual Adolescents come with the knowledge of concepts, they have learned concepts in their first language; when they coursed elementary they have developed reading skills and knowledge and subject concepts; therefore students will translate those skills to the new language. In this process bilingual adolescents generally develop the following process :

**__Transfer of Concepts and Skills __**
English Language Learners translate the information they receive in their second language to their fist language in order to comprehend. As mentioned before bilingual learners are cognitive processers, and come to school knowledge that have already acquired during their first contact with language. Language and cognition are in fuse and connected unconsciously. Some charactisitics generally seen in bilingual readers of a second language are the factors that they tend to attempt in thieir first second language utterances. Assumptions of their fist language rules, applied in their second language such as the following:


 * **Syntactical overgeneralization:** generalizing a type of rule such as sentence order. Bilingual Adolescents tend to translate word order in their writings stratight in the same order of their first language.
 * **Semantic**: Using the same word when referring to other type of things with similar characteristics.
 * **Phonological generalization**; students tend to sound out the letters, syllables or words according to the same sounds learned from their first language.

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