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Newman, Ellen Hamilton; Tardif, Twila; Huang, Jingyuan; Shu, Hua – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
The importance of phonological awareness for learning to read may depend on the linguistic properties of a language. This study provides a careful examination of this language-specific theory by exploring the role of phoneme-level awareness in Mandarin Chinese, a language with an orthography that, at its surface, appears to require little…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism
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Liu, Phil D.; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wong, Anita M. -Y.; Tardif, Twila; Stokes, Stephanie F.; Fletcher, Paul; Shu, Hua – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
This study investigated the extent to which language skills at ages 2 to 4 years could discriminate Hong Kong Chinese poor from adequate readers at age 7. Selected were 41 poor readers (age M = 87.6 months) and 41 adequate readers (age M = 88.3 months). The two groups were matched on age, parents' education levels, and nonverbal intelligence. The…
Descriptors: Sentences, Oral Language, Economically Disadvantaged, Speech Tests