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Yang, Shuyi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The present study examined the components of oral reading fluency (ORF) via various indices and their relationships with comprehension and learner-perceived difficulty of oral reading among Chinese second language (L2) learners. One hundred participants read aloud paragraphs, completed the comprehension test, and rated the difficulty of the oral…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Chinese
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Yan, Guoli; Lan, Zebo; Meng, Zhu; Wang, Yingchao; Benson, Valerie – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
Phonological coding plays an important role in reading for hearing students. Experimental findings regarding phonological coding in deaf readers are controversial, and whether deaf readers are able to use phonological coding remains unclear. In the current study we examined whether Chinese deaf students could use phonological coding during…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Decoding (Reading), Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
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Inoue, Tomohiro; Zhang, Su-Zhen; Georgiou, George K. – Educational Psychology, 2022
We examined the developmental relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills (nonverbal IQ, vocabulary, phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming [RAN]), home environment factors (direct teaching, shared book reading, access to literacy resources, parents' expectations, family's socioeconomic status [SES]), and pinyin letter knowledge in…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Family Environment, Phonological Awareness, Direct Instruction
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Bassetti, Benedetta; Masterson, Jackie – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
Two experiments tested the role of morphemic information and interword spacing in reading in experienced and inexperienced Chinese readers. Chinese is normally written in "hanzi," or characters, which mostly represent monosyllabic morphemes, but it can also be written in "pinyin," or romanised Chinese, which represents phonemes and is word-spaced.…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Reading, Chinese, Phonemes
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Jiang, Xiangying; Sawaki, Yasuyo; Sabatini, John – Reading Psychology, 2012
This study examined the relationship among word reading efficiency, text reading fluency, and reading comprehension for adult English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Data from 185 adult Chinese EFL learners preparing to take the Test-of-English-as-a-Foreign-Language[TM] (TOEFL[R]) were analyzed in this study. The participants completed a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Chinese, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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Liao, Chen-Huei; Kuo, Bor-Chen – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
The present study examined the equivalency of conventional and web-based tests in reading Chinese. Phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), reading accuracy, and reading fluency tests were administered to 93 grade 6 children in Taiwan with both test versions (paper-pencil and web-based). The results suggest that conventional and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Fluency, Phonological Awareness, Grade 6