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Wang, Ying; McBride, Catherine; Zhou, Yanling; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Farver, Jo Ann M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
How do native Chinese-speaking (CS) and non-Chinese-speaking (NCS) children learn to read and write in Chinese? In the present study, 29 CS and 34 NCS second and third graders aged 76 to 122 months (M = 93.65) participated in an experiment where they were taught 16 new Chinese characters in one of four conditions--copy, radical, phonological and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Grade 2
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Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Arabic native speaking children are born into a unique linguistic context called diglossia (Ferguson, "word", 14, 47?56, [1959]). In this context, children grow up speaking a Spoken Arabic Vernacular (SAV), which is an exclusively spoken language, but later learn to read another linguistically related form, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Fluency, Semitic Languages, Phonological Awareness