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Wang, Ying; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Chan, Shing Fong – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Ninety-four Mainland Chinese children in the second and third years of kindergarten (mean age = 65 months, SD = 6.94) were tested on Pinyin letter-name knowledge, invented Pinyin spelling, general copying skills of unfamiliar print (in Korean, Hebrew and Vietnamese, ultimately combined to create a pure copying factor), delayed copying of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Orthographic Symbols, Spelling
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Zhang, Juan; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Tardif, Twila; Shu, Hua; Zhang, Yuping – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The present study explored the early predictors of reading comprehension difficulties in Chinese children. We originally recruited 290 Beijing and 154 Hong Kong children and further selected from each sample those (30 from Beijing and 22 from Hong Kong sample) in the lowest 25% on reading comprehension tests across the last two consecutive testing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
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Cho, Jeung-Ryeul; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
The present study examined associations of levels of phonological awareness to word recognition in Korean and English in a 1-year longitudinal study of 91 children from Masan, Korea. With performances on tasks of speeded naming, vocabulary, and Korean Hangul in 2nd grade statistically controlled, only Korean syllable deletion predicted unique…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Phonological Awareness, Syllables