Beginner learners' progress in decoding L2 French: Transfer effects in typologically similar L1-L2 writing systems

Research into second language (L2) print-to-sound decoding has consistently underlined the importance of L1-to-L2 transfer. Facilitation has been reported where the L1 and L2 writing systems are typologically similar (e.g., English and French) rather than distant (e.g., English and Chinese). However...