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Failure of Steinberg and Yamada to Demonstrate Superiority of Kanji over Kana for Initial Reading Instruction in Japan.

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Tzeng, 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

Pigs Will Be Chickens: Reply to Tzeng and Singer.

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Steinberg, 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