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Li, Yixun; Wang, Min; Espinas, Daniel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Children can teach themselves new words via the process of independent text reading--previous studies on self-teaching heavily focused on learning to read in a first language (L1). Limited work to date has been devoted to second language learning (L2). The present study aimed to fill this gap by investigating self-teaching among English Language…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Word Recognition
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Wang, Min; Park, Yoonjung; Lee, Kyoung Rang – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Cross-language phonological and orthographic relationship in the biliteracy acquisition of children learning to read Korean and English was investigated in this study. Forty-five Korean-English bilingual children were tested in first-language (L1; Korean) and 2nd-language (L2; English) reading skills focusing on 2 reading processes--phonological…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Bilingualism, Phonology, Korean
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Wang, Min; Cheng, Chenxi; Chen, Shi-Wei – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
This study is an investigation of the contribution of morphological awareness in Chinese-English biliteracy acquisition. Comparable tasks in Chinese and English were administered to test children's skills in morphological awareness, phonological awareness, oral vocabulary, word reading, and reading comprehension. The results showed that after the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Children, Bilingualism, Chinese
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Wang, Min; Koda, Keiko – Language Learning, 2005
This study examined word identification skills among Chinese and Korean college students learning to read English as a second language in a naming experiment and an auditory category judgment task. Both groups demonstrated faster and more accurate naming performance on high-frequency words than low-frequency words and on regular words than…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Word Recognition, Asian Americans
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Geva, Esther; Wang, Min – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2001
Reviews recent research evidence for universal and orthography- or language-specific processes in the development of basic reading skills in school-age children. The review focuses on three different aspects of reading--phonological processing, rapid naming, and morphosyntactic complexity--targeted in recent research on development of word…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Reading Processes
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Wang, Min; Perfetti, Charles A.; Liu, Ying – Cognition, 2005
This study investigated cross-language and writing system relationship in biliteracy acquisition of children learning to read two different writing systems--Chinese and English. Forty-six Mandarin-speaking children were tested for their first language (Chinese-L1) and second language (English-L2) reading skills. Comparable experiments in Chinese…
Descriptors: Written Language, Phonology, Writing Skills, Reading Skills