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Qian, Yi; Song, Yao-Wu; Zhao, Jing; Bi, Hong-Yan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The present study explored the developmental trend of orthographic awareness in Chinese-speaking preschoolers. A total of 184 children between 3 and 5 years of age participated in the study. Two developmental patterns of orthographic awareness were obtained. One pattern was dependent on a traditional Chinese orthographic hierarchy, with a sequence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Orthographic Symbols
Polland, Mark – 1993
A cross-cultural study examined preschoolers' knowledge of elementary components of the writing system. Subjects were 41 Chinese and 44 American preschool students between the ages of 2 and 4. The students were presented with sets of cards depicting familiar objects, capitalized English letters, and Chinese characters and were asked to turn each…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Chinese, Cross Cultural Studies, English