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Early Reading in Japan.

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Sheridan, E. Marcia – 1981

There are several reasons why Japan has one of the world's highest literacy rates. One reason is the nature of the Japanese written language, which employs a dual code of ideographs representing specific objects and a syllabary, in which each symbol represents a separate syllable. The syllable symbols are read consistently the same way, and…

Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Japanese

Proceedings of the Asian Reading Conference (Tokyo, Japan, August 3-4, 1993).

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Japan Reading Association, Tokyo. – 1993

This proceedings of the 1993 Asian Reading Conference contains the following 20 papers: "Adverse Effects of Lower Cognitive Processing Capacity on Achievement: What Can We Do?" (James M. Furukawa); "The Impact of Foreign Language Literacy on Higher Education in Thailand" (Uthai Piromruen); "Reading Achievement of Students…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education