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Early Reading in Japan.
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Sheridan, E. Marcia – 1981
There are several reasons why Japan has one of the world's highest literacy rates. One reason is the nature of the Japanese written language, which employs a dual code of ideographs representing specific objects and a syllabary, in which each symbol represents a separate syllable. The syllable symbols are read consistently the same way, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Japanese