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Zhou, Yan-Ling – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This study examined how a dialogic reading (DR) program with a component of multisensory learning (MS) of Chinese characters improved early Chinese reading and writing skills in L2 Chinese-speaking kindergarteners in Hong Kong. The DR + MS program was compared to the same DR program but focusing on morphological awareness (MA) training. A total of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Literacy, Chinese, Kindergarten
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Tong, Xiuli; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Shu, Hua; Wong, Anita M-Y. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2009
This 1-year longitudinal study examined the extent to which morphological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and phonological awareness, along with speeded naming, uniquely explained word recognition, dictation (i.e., spelling), and reading comprehension among 171 young Hong Kong Chinese children. With age and vocabulary knowledge statistically…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Phonological Awareness
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Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Cheung, Him; Chow, Celia Sze-Lok – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study investigates the effects of parent-child shared book reading and metalinguistic training on the language and literacy skills of 148 kindergartners in Hong Kong. Children were pretested on Chinese character recognition, vocabulary, morphological awareness, and reading interest and then assigned randomly to 1 of 4 conditions: the dialogic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others, Metalinguistics, Morphology (Languages)