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The Anatomy of the Role of Morphological Awareness in Chinese Character Learning: The Mediation of Vocabulary and Semantic Radical Knowledge and the Moderation of Morpheme Family Size
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Liu, Duo; Li, Hong; Wong, Kwok Shing Richard – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
In the present study, the mediating roles of syllable awareness, orthographic knowledge, and vocabulary skills and the moderating role of morpheme family size in the association between morphological awareness and Chinese character reading were investigated with 176 second-grade Hong Kong Chinese children. In the path analyses, the results…
Descriptors: Role, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Correlation
Home Literacy and Chinese Reading in Hong Kong Children
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Lau, Jasmine Yuet-Han; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Early Education and Development, 2005
Measures of Chinese character recognition, vocabulary, and interest in reading were administered to 92 second grade children in Hong Kong, while questionnaires on parental literacy practices were administered to their parents. In a hierarchical regression equation, maternal education, children's age and vocabulary skill predicted 18% of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Vocabulary Skills, Self Efficacy