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Parent-Child Reading in English as a Second Language: Effects on Language and Literacy Development of Chinese Kindergarteners
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Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Cheung, Him – Journal of Research in Reading, 2010
This study investigated the effects of dialogic parent-child reading in English on 51 Hong Kong kindergarteners learning English as a second language. Children were pre-tested on nonverbal IQ, reading interest and receptive vocabulary, word reading and phonological awareness in both Chinese and English. They were then assigned randomly to one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, English
Dialogic Reading and Morphology Training in Chinese Children: Effects on Language and Literacy
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Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Cheung, Him; Chow, Celia Sze-Lok – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study investigates the effects of parent-child shared book reading and metalinguistic training on the language and literacy skills of 148 kindergartners in Hong Kong. Children were pretested on Chinese character recognition, vocabulary, morphological awareness, and reading interest and then assigned randomly to 1 of 4 conditions: the dialogic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others, Metalinguistics, Morphology (Languages)