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Liu, Phil D.; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wong, Terry T.-Y.; Shu, Hua; Wong, Anita M.-Y. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
An in-depth exploration of the associations of two aspects of morphological awareness in Chinese--homophone awareness and lexical compounding awareness--to Chinese word reading and vocabulary knowledge was the primary focus of the present study. Among 154 9-year-old Hong Kong Chinese children, both lexical compounding and homophone awareness were…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Chinese, Metalinguistics, Vocabulary Development
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Tong, Xiuli; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Shu, Hua; Reitsma, Pieter; Rispens, Judith – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
This 2-year longitudinal study examined both concurrent and longitudinal relations of a variety of reading-related cognitive tasks and Chinese word reading and word dictation among 187 Hong Kong Chinese kindergarteners aged 4-6. Homophone awareness, visual skills and syllable awareness were all uniquely associated with Chinese word reading across…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbal Communication, Syllables, Chinese
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McBride-Chang, Catherine; Suk-Han Ho, Connie – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2005
Ninety Chinese children were tested once at age 4 and again 22 months later on phonological-processing and other reading skills. Chinese phonological-processing skills alone modestly predicted Chinese character recognition, and English letter-name knowledge uniquely predicted reading of both Chinese and English 2 years later. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Word Recognition, Reading Skills, Invented Spelling
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McBride-Chang, Catherine; Kail, Robert V. – Child Development, 2002
Compared reading development among kindergartners in Hong Kong and the United States using measures of word recognition, phonological awareness, speeded naming, visual spatial skill, and processing speed. Found that models of early reading development were similar across cultures. The strongest predictor of reading was phonological awareness.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, English