Second Language Writing Systems by Vivian Cook

				(Key: R = reading, W= writing , A = awareness; NL = non-linguistic activities.)
L1WS type	L2WS type	L1WS	L2 WS	Source
Morphemic	Alphabetic	Chinese	English	(R) Haynes & Carr (1990); (R) Leong & Hsia (1996); (R, A) Jackson et al. (1994); (A) Wang & Geva (2003) ; (O) Freeman (1980)
Morphemic	Alphabetic	Japanese	English	(W) Okada (2002)
Syllabic	Alphabetic	Kannada	English	(A) Prakash et al. (1993)
Consonantal	Alphabetic	Arabic	English	(R) Green & Meara (1987); (R) Ryan & Meara (1991); (R) Randall & Meara (1988); (W) Ibrahim (1978); (W) Haggan (1991); (O) Morikawa and McBeath (1992)
		Hebrew	English	(A) Ben-Dror et al. (1995) ; (O) Kugelmass & Lieblich (1979)
		Farsi	English	(R) Nassaji & Geva (1999)
Morphemic vs. alphabetic	Alphabetic	Chinese, Vietnamese	English	(A) Holm & Dodd (1996)
		Japanese, Russian	English	(A) Wade-Woolley (1999)
		Chinese, Indonesian	English	(?) Muljani et al. (1998)
Morphemic vs. consonantal	Alphabetic	Japanese,Chinese, Persian	English	Akamatsu (1999)
Morphemic vs. consonantal	Alphabetic	Japanese, Arabic	English	(R) Fender (2003)
Morphemic vs. consonantal vs. alphabetic	Alphabetic	Japanese,Arabic, Spanish	English	(R) Brown & Haynes (1985 ); (R) Koda (1988, 1995)
		Japanese, Greek, others	English	(W) Cook (1997)
		Chinese, Arabic, Spanish	English	(W) Oller & Ziahosseiny (1970)
Alphabetic	Morphemic	English	Chinese	Hayes (1988) ; Jackson et al. (1994) ???; Sun (1994) ?' (R,A) Bassetti (in progress) ??????
	Consonantal	English	Hebrew	(A) Ben-Dror et al. (1995)
	Consonantal	English, Russian	Hebrew	(A) Wade-Woolley & Geva (1998)
	Alphabetic	Greek	English	(R) Chitiri & Willows (1997); (A) Loizou and Stuart (2003)
		German	English	(W) Luelsdorff (1986)
		Welsh	English	(W) James et al. (1993).
		Spanish	English	(W) Bebout (1985); (W) Terrebone (1973); Staczek & Aid (1981);
		???	Dutch	(?) Verhoeven (1994) ???
Alphabetic vs. morphemic	Morphemic	English, Chinese, Korean	Japanese kanji	(R) Mori (1998)
Alphabetic vs. syllabic	Syllabic	English, Chinese	Japanese kana	(R) Chikamatsu (1996); (R) Tamaoka and Menzel (1994)

Summary of some L1 and L2 writing systems that have been studied (adapted from Cook & Bassetti, 2005)

L1WS