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O'Brien, Beth A.; Mohamed, Malikka Begum Habib; Yussof, Nurul Taqiah; Ng, Siew Chin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Phonological awareness is critical for early reading acquisition across alphabetic as well as non-alphabetic languages. The grain size of phonological awareness varies with oral language structure and written orthography across languages. Phonological awareness' grain size and contribution to reading for simultaneous biliterate children is…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Emergent Literacy, Early Reading, Phonemes
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Haoning Mah, Grace; Hu, Xiangqing; Yang, Weipeng – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Singapore has launched a bilingual education policy nationwide, which leads to three main home language environments amongst Chinese families, namely, Chinese dominant, Chinese-English bilingual families and English dominant families. However, little is known about the development of early reading abilities among Singapore children from these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Elementary School Students, Early Reading
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Kam Tse, Shek; Zhu, Yu; Yan Hui, Sau; Ng, Hung Wai – Australian Journal of Education, 2017
The English and Chinese reading proficiency of 1376 Grade 4 students in 24 Hong Kong primary schools were assessed using measures developed for the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. Students' parents provided information about home reading activities (HRA) aimed at supporting their children's reading prior to them entering school…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Reading Aloud to Others
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Luk, Gigi; Bialystok, Ellen – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
The study explores the relationship between phonological awareness and early reading for bilingual children learning to read in two languages that use different writing systems. Participants were 57 Cantonese-English bilingual 6-year-olds who were learning to read in both languages. The children completed cognitive measures, phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Phonological Awareness, Factor Analysis, English
Titone, Renzo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1982
Discusses the results of recent research concerning the effects of bilingualism on the development of preschool children and explains how early bilingual education greatly enriches a child's personality cognitively, linguistically, affectively, socially, and morally. Claims it is possible and beneficial to offer young children the opportunity to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Early Reading, Language Research
Singhal, Meena – 1998
A study examined the types of reading strategies emergent readers used as they read to make sense of the text. In addition to data obtained for the children's oral readings, a reading strategy classification scheme, Strategy Type Strategy Behavior (STSB), was employed to identify the types of strategies the children were using on this task.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy
Mount Carmel International Training Centre, Haifa (Israel). – 1993
The purpose of a 1992 course on emergent literacy in early childhood education was to formulate a shared definition of literacy; create awareness of the developmental process involved; test previous assumptions, methods, and techniques in the light of new knowledge; and develop pedagogic approaches and curricula relevant to the existing conditions…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Development, Diglossia