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Wong, Yu Ka – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: This study investigates young Chinese as a second language (CSL) learners' Chinese character reading performance and its relationship with their orthographic awareness. There is a pressing need to gain a better understanding of Hong Kong's ethnic minority students' CSL acquisition, so that more effective instruction can be provided.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Reading Skills
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Li, Tong; Wang, Ying; Tong, Xiuhong; McBride, Catherine – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
To investigate the relationship between Chinese children's character and word reading, 62 third and 50 fifth grade children in Hong Kong were asked to read single characters and words that were comprised of these characters. Results showed that words helped children to recognize characters for both grades of children. Compared to older children,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Processes, Written Language, Orthographic Symbols
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Tong, Xiuli; McBride, Catherine – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
This study examined how Chinese children acquire the untaught positional constraints of stroke patterns that are embedded in left-right structured and top-bottom structured characters. Using an orthographic regularity pattern elicitation paradigm, 536 Hong Kong Chinese children at different levels of reading (kindergarten, 2nd, and 5th grades)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Written Language, Language Acquisition