Cook, Vivian J. and Bassetti, Benedetta (eds.) (2005)
English writing system is connected to our lives in many ways not something that is dependent to other aspects of language but inevitably important to almost everything we do from signing our wills to sending a text message. Learners and users of a second language writing system (L2WS) also have a different knowledge of the linguistic units superseded by their L2WS, compared with its native users. Native users of different writing systems are affected in their analysis of the spoken language by the linguistic units that their writing system supersedes as separable units (by means of orthographic and graphemes conventions). In addition, comparison indicated similar error rates in L1 children and L2 adults and a similar partition of errors both for L1 adults and children and for L2 users across the familiar types of letter insertion, substitution, omission and transposition, apart from a lower stature of omission errors for L2 users. More detailed comparisons found that, while some errors were particular to certain groups.