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Bauer, Eurydice B., Ed.; Gort, Mileidis, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
A large and growing number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the US and around the world have the potential to develop bilingualism and biliteracy if supported in their immediate environment. At the forefront in focusing exclusively on biliteracy development in early childhood across a variety of languages, this…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Caregiver Role, Grade 1, Bilingualism
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Pak, Ada K. H.; Cheng-lai, Alice; Tso, Ivy F.; Shu, Hua; Li, Wenling; Anderson, Richard C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
This study investigated the development of visual chunking skills in the processing of Chinese characters among Hong Kong pupils. One-hundred-seventy-nine primary school students from first, second and fourth grades were administered a character copying task. Children as young as 6 years of age were aware of character units and were able to apply…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Ability, Chinese