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Peer reviewedShu, Hua; Anderson, Richard C. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1997
Finds that third and fifth graders were able to select characters containing the correct radicals (a component of Chinese characters that provides information about the character's meaning) even when the characters as a whole were unfamiliar to them. Finds that good readers displayed more awareness of radicals than poor readers. (RS)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
