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 Learners and users of a second language writing system (L2WS) also have a different knowledge of the linguistic units superseded by their L2WS, compared with its native users.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).