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Cheng, Xi; Zhang, Haomin – Journal of Research in Reading, 2023
Background: The present study aimed to examine and compare the relative contributions of three facets of metalinguistic awareness (phonological awareness, orthographic awareness and morphological awareness) and lexical inferencing ability to Chinese reading comprehension across upper elementary grades. Method: Fifty-three third graders, 79 fourth…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Phonological Awareness, Orthographic Symbols, Morphology (Languages)
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Zhang, Haomin; Koda, Keiko – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This study explored the role of early oral language in reading development among adult heritage language (HL) learners to provide insights into the possible developmental pattern of HL reading development. One hundred and ninety-five English-speaking Chinese HL (CHL) students participated in this study. They completed a language background survey…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Heritage Education, Morphology (Languages), Language Role
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Zhang, Haomin – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
The current study aimed to explore the effect of first language (L1) orthography on second language (L2) Chinese morphological awareness. One hundred and twenty-nine students (61 L1 English readers and 68 L1 Thai readers) who studied Chinese as a second language participated in this study. They completed four tasks of morphological awareness…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Morphology (Languages)
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Zhang, Haomin; Koda, Keiko – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This exploratory study aimed to examine whether early exposure to Chinese as a heritage language (CHL) provides facilitation in word-knowledge development in collegiate CHL learners by comparing word-level subskills, including oral vocabulary knowledge, print vocabulary knowledge, morphological awareness, and lexical inferencing ability, between…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Chinese, Heritage Education
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Zhang, Haomin; Koda, Keiko – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
The study aimed to explore cross-linguistic contributions of morphological awareness to Chinese reading acquisition among Chinese heritage language (CHL) learners who had grown up speaking Chinese at home, received English medium education throughout schooling, and were studying Chinese at the time of the study. The sample thus represents a…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, English (Second Language)
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Zhang, Haomin – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
The present study examined the role of morphological awareness in second language (L2) Chinese vocabulary acquisition through an investigation of linguistic universality and specificity underlying morphological awareness. Morphological awareness in this study was conceptualized as a universal and sharable cognitive resource as well as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Morphemes