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Download full textSheridan, E. Marcia – 1979
The history of three non-Latin based orthographies--Chinese, Japanese, and Korean--is reviewed in this paper. The characteristics of the three orthographies are examined regarding the ease of learning to read with these varied symbol systems. Attention is given to the incidence of reading disability in different orthographies, and research is…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Asian Studies, Beginning Reading, Chinese
Peer reviewedTzeng, Ovid J. L.; Singer, Harry – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Analyzes a report by D.D. Steinberg and J. Yamada that investigated which of the different types of scripts used in Japanese writing was the easiest to learn to read. (MKM)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedSteinberg, Danny D.; Yamada, Jun – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Offers a rebuttal to Tzeng and Singer's criticism of the authors' study of the ease of learning to read the different Japanese scripts. States that the symbols and words were taught in the ordinary situation in which they are learned. (MKM)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Elementary Education
