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Direct linkLee, Hyun Kyung; Chan, Wai Sum; Tong, Shelley Xiuli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Reading comprehension difficulties exhibited by children with autism are related to executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM) deficits. However, the potential heterogeneity of ToM, EF, and reading comprehension abilities, and their interrelationships, among Chinese children with autism remains unclear. Using comprehensive sets of ToM and EF…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Executive Function, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Kevin Kien Hoa Chung; Chun Bun Lam; Kevin Shing-Chi Chan; Alfred S. Y. Lee; Catrina Cuina Liu; Li-Chih Wang – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
This study investigated the cross-sectional relationships between reading-related affective and cognitive factors and reading skills among adolescents with and without dyslexia. Participants were 120 Chinese-speaking eighth graders, including 60 adolescents with dyslexia and 60 typically developing adolescents from Hong Kong, China. Adolescents…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, Chinese
Shum, Kathy Kar-man; Ho, Connie Suk-Han; Siegel, Linda S.; Au, Terry Kit-fong – Reading Research Quarterly, 2016
Can young students' early reading abilities in their first language (L1) predict later literacy development in a second language (L2)? The cross-language relationships between Chinese (L1) and English (L2) among 87 Hong Kong students were explored in a longitudinal study. Chinese word-reading fluency, Chinese rapid digit naming, and Chinese rhyme…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Instruction, Literacy
Tang, Ivy N. Y.; To, Carol K. S.; Weekes, Brendan S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: Inference-making skills are necessary for reading comprehension. Training in riddle appreciation is an effective way to improve reading comprehension among English-speaking children. However, it is not clear whether these methods generalize to other writing systems. The goal of the present study was to investigate the relationship between…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Sino Tibetan Languages, Correlation
Zhou, Yan-Ling; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Fong, Cathy Y.-C.; Wong, Terry T.-Y.; Cheung, Sum Kwing – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: In this study, 88 kindergartners received special training in lexical compounding, homophone awareness, or phonological awareness or were assigned to a control condition over a period of approximately 2 months, with 20-min lessons administered twice per week. Chinese word reading improved significantly more in the lexical…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development
Chung, Kevin K. H.; Lo, Jason C. M.; Ho, Connie S.-H.; Xiao, Xiaoyun; Chan, David W. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2014
This study aims to investigate the relation of syntactic and discourse skills to morphological skills, rapid naming, and working memory in Chinese adolescent readers with dyslexia and to examine their cognitive-linguistic profiles. Fifty-two dyslexic readers (mean age, 13;42) from grade 7 to 9 in Hong Kong high schools were compared with 52…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Naming, Short Term Memory, Syntax
McBride-Chang, Catherine; Liu, Phil D.; Wong, Terry; Wong, Anita; Shu, Hua – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
What are the longitudinal cognitive profiles of Hong Kong Chinese children with specific reading difficulties in Chinese only, in English only, or both? A total of 16 poor readers each of Chinese (PC) and English (PE) and 8 poor readers of both orthographies (PB) were compared to a control sample (C) of 16 children; all were drawn from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Chinese
Download full textAllison, Desmond; Ip, Kung Sau – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1991
A study of reading problems among Hong Kong university students of English as a Second Language has two parts. The first examines a teacher's comparison of a source text with a student's written response. The student subject was a highly-motivated, proficient learner. Discussion of her reading problems focuses on the incidence of misinterpretation…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Case Studies, Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes
