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Haoning Mah, Grace; Hu, Xiangqing; Yang, Weipeng – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Singapore has launched a bilingual education policy nationwide, which leads to three main home language environments amongst Chinese families, namely, Chinese dominant, Chinese-English bilingual families and English dominant families. However, little is known about the development of early reading abilities among Singapore children from these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Elementary School Students, Early Reading
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Tan, Yah Hui; Poon, Kenneth K.; Rickard Liow, Susan J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Research on the reading skills of monolingual children has established a convergent skills model for acquisition involving context-free decoding, language comprehension, and visual and phonological processing. This study sought to identify the predictors of Primary One bilingual children's reading accuracy and reading comprehension in English.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
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Tse, Shek Kam; Lam, Raymond Y. H.; Lam, Joseph W. I.; Chan, Yiu Man; Loh, Elizabeth K. Y. – Research in Education, 2006
The study examines the reading attitudes and attainment of Hong Kong, Singapore and English primary-school students using data collected in the PIRLS 2001 international reading survey. A total of 13,486 students aged 9-10 years were assessed. Singaporean students were found to have more positive reading attitudes and confidence than Hong Kong and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Ability, Gender Differences, Reading Attitudes