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Download full textShu, Hua; Anderson, Richard C. – 1995
A total of 292 Chinese children in the first, third, or fifth grade in Beijing, China, participated in one of two experiments investigating radical awareness; that is, the knowledge that a component of most Chinese characters, called the radical, usually provides information about a character's meaning. The technique was to present two-character…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Chinese, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedShu, Hua; Anderson, Richard C. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1997
Finds that third and fifth graders were able to select characters containing the correct radicals (a component of Chinese characters that provides information about the character's meaning) even when the characters as a whole were unfamiliar to them. Finds that good readers displayed more awareness of radicals than poor readers. (RS)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
