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Direct linkXiao, Nan; Che, Yishu; Zhang, Xiao; Song, Zhanmei; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Yin, Shaoqing – Infant and Child Development, 2020
This study examined the relationship between the frequency of mother-child and father-child literacy teaching activities and the reading skills of Chinese preschool children. A total of 105 Hong Kong Chinese preschoolers and their fathers and mothers were involved. Fathers and mothers independently reported the frequency of their own literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Fathers, Parents as Teachers
Choi, William; Tong, Xiuli; Law, Katherine Ka-Sin; Cain, Kate – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
A growing body of cross-linguistic research has suggested that morphological awareness plays a key role in both L1 and L2 word reading among bilingual readers. However, little is known about the interaction and development of L1 and L2 morphological awareness in relation to word reading. We addressed this issue by evaluating the unique…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Bilingualism, Word Recognition, Chinese
Tong, Xiuhong; McBride, Catherine; Ho, Connie Suk-han; Waye, Mary Miu Yee; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Wong, Simpson Wai Lap; Chow, Bonnie Wing Yin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In this study, we investigated the contribution of morphological awareness (MA) in one language to word reading and vocabulary in another language in Hong Kong Cantonese-English speaking children, who learn Chinese and English in school in parallel from the age of 3.5 years onwards. Our sample consisted of 97 Cantonese-English speaking children…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Word Recognition, Vocabulary, Foreign Countries
Zhang, Juan; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Tardif, Twila; Shu, Hua; Zhang, Yuping – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The present study explored the early predictors of reading comprehension difficulties in Chinese children. We originally recruited 290 Beijing and 154 Hong Kong children and further selected from each sample those (30 from Beijing and 22 from Hong Kong sample) in the lowest 25% on reading comprehension tests across the last two consecutive testing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Lau, Carrie; Rao, Nirmala – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Vocabulary instruction during English language learning was observed for one week in six classrooms (three K2 classes for four-year olds and three K3 classes for five-year olds) from three kindergartens in two districts of Hong Kong. From 23 sessions of observations and 535 minutes of data, field notes were coded to identify instances of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Vocabulary, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Mcbride-Chang, Catherine; Chow, Bonnie W. Y.; Zhong, Yiping; Burgess, Stephen; Hayward, William G. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Three different visual skills, along with Chinese character recognition, vocabulary, speeded naming, and syllable deletion skills were tested twice over one school year among 118 Hong Kong and 96 Xiangtan, China kindergartners. Results revealed that a task of Visual Spatial Relationships [Gardner, M. F. (1996). "Test of visual-perceptual…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Acquisition, Visual Perception, Scripts
