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Cross-Language Transfer of Insight into the Structure of Compound Words
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Zhang, Jie; Anderson, Richard C.; Li, Hong; Dong, Qiong; Wu, Xinchun; Zhang, Yan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
Cross-language transfer of awareness of the structure of compound words was investigated among native speakers of Chinese who were learning English as a second language. Chinese fifth graders received instruction in the morphology of four types of compound words in either Chinese or English. They then completed both the Chinese and English…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Native Speakers