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Direct linkYeung, Susanna S.; Chan, Carol K. K. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: Learning to read is very challenging for Hong Kong children who learn English as a second language (ESL), as they must acquire two very different writing systems, beginning at the age of three. Few studies have examined the role of phonological awareness at the subsyllabic levels, oral language proficiency, and L1 tone awareness in L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Native Language, Intonation
Chan, Alice Y. W. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
This article discusses the strategies used by Cantonese ESL learners to cope with their problems in pronouncing English initial consonant clusters. A small-scale research study was carried out with six secondary and six university students in Hong Kong, who were asked to perform four speech tasks: the reading of a word list, the description of a…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Interlanguage, Word Lists
McBride-Chang, C.; Cheung, H.; Chow, B. W.-Y.; Chow, C. S.-L.; Choi, L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
How are metalinguistic skills associated with vocabulary knowledge in languages with contrasting phonological and morphological properties? To address this question, tasks of phonological awareness and morphological awareness, other reasoning and literacy-related skills, and measures of vocabulary knowledge in Chinese and English, were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, Language Skills, Chinese
McBride-Chang, Catherine; Bialystok, Ellen; Chong, Karen K. Y.; Li, Yanping – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
This study focused on syllable phoneme onset levels of phonological awareness in relation to reading of Chinese and English in kindergarten and first-grade children from Xian (China), Hong Kong, and Toronto, cultures that differ substantially in approaches to reading instruction. English syllable awareness among native Chinese speakers was as good…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonemes, Word Recognition, Syllables
Peer reviewedMcBride-Chang, Catherine; Kail, Robert V. – Child Development, 2002
Compared reading development among kindergartners in Hong Kong and the United States using measures of word recognition, phonological awareness, speeded naming, visual spatial skill, and processing speed. Found that models of early reading development were similar across cultures. The strongest predictor of reading was phonological awareness.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, English
