Impact of early home language exposure on phonological and orthographic skills and their contributions to English literacy abilities in English monolingual and Chinese–English bilingual adults

Relatively little is known about the importance of phonological and orthographic processing skills for reading and spelling in monolingual and bilingual adults. We compared these underlying skills, using a series of phonological and orthographic tasks, in English monolingual ( n = 28), English first language and Chinese second language bilingual ( n = 21), and Chinese first language and English second language bilingual adults ( n = 22) who were...