Failure of Steinberg and Yamada to Demonstrate Superiority of Kanji over Kana for Initial Reading Instruction in Japan.

Tzeng, Ovid J. L.; Singer, Harry

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ERIC Number: EJ206154

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Publication Date: 1978

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Failure of Steinberg and Yamada to Demonstrate Superiority of Kanji over Kana for Initial Reading Instruction in Japan.

Tzeng, Ovid J. L.; Singer, Harry

Reading Research Quarterly, v14 n4 p661-67 1978-79

Analyzes a report by D.D. Steinberg and J. Yamada that investigated which of the different types of scripts used in Japanese writing was the easiest to learn to read. (MKM)

Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Japanese, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology), Sight Vocabulary, Syllables, Symbolic Learning, Word Recognition, Written Language

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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