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Chen, Xiaomeng; Liang, Lelin; Lu, Minghui – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
This study explored the effects of visual status and braille reading patterns on the reading accuracy of students with visual impairments in China. The sample consisted of 121 students aged 10-19 years: 48 were students with congenital visual impairments, 25 were students with adventitious visual impairments, and 48 were sighted students. Students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Braille, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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Tong, Xiuhong; Tong, Xiuli; McBride, Catherine – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study investigated Chinese children's development of sensitivity to positional (orthographic), phonological, and semantic cues of radicals in encoding novel Chinese characters. A newly designed picture-novel character mapping task, along with nonverbal reasoning ability, vocabulary, and Chinese character recognition were administered to 198…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Grade 2
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Sun, Zhong; Yang, Xian Min; He, Ke Kang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
The rapid development of the digital classroom has made it possible to combine extensive reading with online writing, yet research and development in this area are lacking. This study explores the impact of online writing after extensive reading in a classroom setting in China where there was one computer for each student (a 1:1 digital…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Elementary School Students, Writing Assignments, Foreign Countries
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Liu, I-Fang; Ko, Hwa-Wei; Wu, Sheng-Yi – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2014
Teachers experience difficulty demonstrating prediction strategies and leading discussions in traditional classrooms. It is also unclear whether online discussion can contribute to reading comprehension. The purpose of this study is to create an online reading system to investigate whether learners can acquire reading strategies and enhance their…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Learning Strategies, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Discussion Groups
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Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy; Sha, Shuying – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
This study explored the development of meta-cognitive knowledge and control, the relationship between the two constructs, the types of strategy knowledge Chinese students consider valuable and comparisons with US children's knowledge of strategies at the third-grade level. One hundred and twenty students were randomly sampled from third-, fifth-…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Chinese, Grade 3
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Law, Yin-Kum – Educational Research, 2009
Background: The latest report by the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), issued in 2006, indicated that Hong Kong Primary 4 Chinese students outperformed children from 45 countries and provinces in reading comprehension tests that measured their higher-order reading proficiency. However, the study gave no indication of how…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intelligence, Low Income Groups, Reading Strategies