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Liyan Yu; Jing Huang; Phil Duo Liu; Susanna Siu-Sze Yeung; Dan Lin; Him Cheung; Xiuhong Tong – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background and Aims: This study examined how parenting styles influence children's language skills and reading comprehension. Materials and Methods: Six hundred and eighty-five Chinese-speaking third graders (M[subscript age] = 9.23 years, SD = 0.66; 341 girls) were randomly recruited from eight primary schools. We measured students' primary…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension, Grade 3
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Li, Shifeng; Nan, Nan; Xu, Qiongying; Li, Jiayue – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
Previous studies have revealed that the perceived quality of the parent-child relationship is essential for both physical health and psychological well-being. However, most studies have treated the perceived quality of this relationship as an independent variable. In this study, we considered it a dependent variable and examined the role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Elementary School Students, Educational Attainment
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Zhang, Su-Zhen; Inoue, Tomohiro; Cao, Guanghai; Li, Liangfeng; Georgiou, George K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: We examined the role of distal (parents' education, family's income, parents' expectations, and parents' attitudes to the home teaching of literacy) and proximal (formal and informal home literacy environment, access to literacy resources, and extracurricular activities) parental factors in children's early literacy skills and whether the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Parent Influence
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Tan, Tony Xing; Zhou, Yi; Li, Gen – Education 3-13, 2020
We tested possible mediating effect of 12 variables within the home environment on the link between maternal education level and Language and Literacy and Math scores in a sample of Chinese second graders (N = 303-306). Data on maternal education and home environment variables were obtained from the parents in January of 2019, while data on test…
Descriptors: Mothers, Educational Attainment, Parent Background, Grade 2
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Zhang, Su-Zhen; Inoue, Tomohiro; Shu, Hua; Georgiou, George K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Although several studies have examined the role of home literacy environment (HLE) in learning to read in Western societies, little is known about the role of HLE in Chinese reading. In addition, the few studies in Chinese have not tested the possible effects of HLE on reading comprehension. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten
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Zhang, Su Zhen; Georgiou, George K.; Xu, Jining; Liu, Jian Mei; Li, Miao; Shu, Hua – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
The authors examined whether different measures of print exposure assess the same underlying concept and how these different measures relate to vocabulary breadth and depth. One hundred forty-seven students attending the third year of kindergarten in Jining, China, were assessed on nonverbal IQ, vocabulary breadth and depth, and their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Nonverbal Communication, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries