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Direct linkMcBride-Chang, Catherine; Bialystok, Ellen; Chong, Karen K. Y.; Li, Yanping – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
This study focused on syllable phoneme onset levels of phonological awareness in relation to reading of Chinese and English in kindergarten and first-grade children from Xian (China), Hong Kong, and Toronto, cultures that differ substantially in approaches to reading instruction. English syllable awareness among native Chinese speakers was as good…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonemes, Word Recognition, Syllables
Bialystok, Ellen; Luk, Gigi; Kwan, Ernest – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2005
Four groups of children in first grade were compared on early literacy tasks. Children in three of the groups were bilingual, each group representing a different combination of language and writing system, and children in the fourth group were monolingual speakers of English. All the bilingual children used both languages daily and were learning…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Written Language, Phonemes, Reading Skills
