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Direct linkLau, Kit-ling – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
In this study, an intervention program was designed based on the instructional principles of self-regulated learning (SRL), and its effectiveness in enhancing Hong Kong secondary three students' classical Chinese (CC) reading comprehension and motivation was evaluated. A pretest-posttest treatment-control group quasi-experimental design was used.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Metacognition, Secondary School Students
Bakhtiar, Mehdi; Wong, Min Ney; Tsui, Emily Ka Yin; McNeil, Malcolm R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This study reports the psychometric development of the Cantonese versions of the English Computerized Revised Token Test (CRTT) for persons with aphasia (PWAs) and healthy controls (HCs). Method: The English CRTT was translated into standard Chinese for the Reading--Word Fade version (CRTT-R-[subscript WF]-Cantonese) and into formal…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Sino Tibetan Languages, Computer Assisted Testing, Aphasia
Tong, Xiuhong; McBride, Catherine – Topics in Language Disorders, 2017
Is dyslexia in Chinese for Chinese-English bilinguals associated with difficulties in reading English, given differences in L1 and L2 orthographies? Among 11 Hong Kong Chinese adolescents with dyslexia, who were diagnosed by professional psychologists using the diagnostic criteria set out in a standardized test, and 14 adolescents without…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries
Fong, Cathy Yui-Chi; Ho, Connie Suk Han – First Language, 2019
Prior research on reading difficulties has mainly focused on word decoding problems. However, there exists another group of children -- poor comprehenders (PCs) -- who have normal word decoding abilities but difficulties in reading comprehension. Less is known about PCs especially in non-alphabetic languages such as Chinese. This study identified…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading), Psycholinguistics
Oliveri, María Elena; Ercikan, Kadriye; Zumbo, Bruno D.; Lawless, René – International Journal of Testing, 2014
In this study, we contrast results from two differential item functioning (DIF) approaches (manifest and latent class) by the number of items and sources of items identified as DIF using data from an international reading assessment. The latter approach yielded three latent classes, presenting evidence of heterogeneity in examinee response…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Comparative Analysis, Reading Tests, Effect Size
Deng, Qinli; Choi, William; Tong, Xiuli – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
This study examined the roles of first-language (L1) Chinese and second-language (L2) English phonological skills in English and Chinese reading comprehension, respectively, and their association with reading comprehension difficulties among Hong Kong Chinese-English bilingual children. We tested 258 second graders on nonverbal intelligence,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Mak, Barley S. Y.; Cheung, Alan C. K.; Guo, Xin; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, Anne – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The current paper examined the effects of A Balanced Reading Approach for Children Always Designed to Achieve Best Results for All (ABRA), a web-based literacy programme developed by the the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) at Concordia University, on primary school children in Hong Kong. The participants were 249 Primary 1…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness
Yeung, Susanna S. S.; Siegel, Linda S.; Chan, Carol K. K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study investigated the effects of a 12-week language-enriched phonological awareness instruction on 76 Hong Kong young children who were learning English as a second language. The children were assigned randomly to receive the instruction on phonological awareness skills embedded in vocabulary learning activities or comparison instruction…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Reading Instruction, Spelling, English (Second Language)
Abrami, Philip; Borohkovski, Eugene; Lysenko, Larysa – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2015
This meta-analysis summarizes research on the effects of a comprehensive, interactive web-based software (AXXX) on the development of reading competencies among kindergarteners and elementary students. Findings from seven randomized control trials and quasi-experimental studies undertaken in a variety of contexts across Canada, Australia and Kenya…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Computer Assisted Instruction
