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Direct linkYeung, Susanna S.; King, Ronnel B. – Reading Psychology, 2016
The present study explored the home literacy environment for Chinese ESL kindergarteners and examined the relationships between home literacy practices and language and literacy skills. Ninety Hong Kong Chinese ESL kindergarteners were assessed for English vocabulary, phonological awareness, letter knowledge and word reading. Their parents…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Expressive Language, Prediction
Yeung, Susanna S. S.; Siegel, Linda S.; Chan, Carol K. K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study investigated the effects of a 12-week language-enriched phonological awareness instruction on 76 Hong Kong young children who were learning English as a second language. The children were assigned randomly to receive the instruction on phonological awareness skills embedded in vocabulary learning activities or comparison instruction…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Reading Instruction, Spelling, English (Second Language)
Li, Lan; MacGregor, Lucy J. – Language and Education, 2010
The Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) is widely used to assess the vocabulary size of second-language learners of English. The test assesses learners' knowledge of words of different frequencies within general English and of high-frequency words within academic texts. We used the VLT to measure the English vocabulary size of Chinese university students…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Word Frequency
