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Ruan, Yijun; Ye, Yanyan; Lui, Kelvin Fai Hong; McBride, Catherine; Ho, Connie Suk Han – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
Word reading and word spelling are important processes of literacy acquisition for children. The longitudinal relationship between reading and spelling is still unclear, especially among bilinguals and biscriptals. In the present study, we compared the longitudinal word reading-spelling relationship in L1 (Chinese) and L2 (English), together with…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Spelling, Longitudinal Studies, Bilingual Students
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Tong, Xiuhong; Kwan, Joyce Lok Yin; Xiuli Tong, Shelley; Deacon, S. Hélène – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Syntax, or sentence structure, plays a role in reading comprehension, but how students draw on their awareness of syntax in their reading remains unclear; the mechanism is even more ambiguous in bilingual students. In this study, we evaluated the direct and indirect contributions of syntactic awareness on first-language Chinese and second-language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Chinese, English (Second Language)
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Siu, Carrey Tik-Sze; Ho, Connie Suk-Han – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
The present study examined the roles of different dimensions of syntactic skills in predicting reading comprehension within and across two languages with contrasting structural properties: Chinese and English. A total of 413 young Cantonese-English bilingual students in Hong Kong (202 first graders and 211 third graders) were tested on word order…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Syntax, Language Skills, Sino Tibetan Languages