Download or read book Cognitive Skills in Learning to Read in Chinese and English written by Hui Li and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis sought to critique two recent empirical studies on transfer of cognitive skills between reading Chinese (L1) and English (L2). By a careful review of the major concepts and ideas on theories of transfer of learning, the author called for readers' attention to the conditions of learning events that encourage transfer to happen. Transfer is how we human being learn based on our past knowledge and experiences. Transfer is aspired to occur, but it usually does not. Without examining the conditions that promote transfer, one would be too bold to assume the occurrence of transfer. The two empirical studies showed a lack of interest to examining the conditions of transfer, thus presumed the occurrence of transfer and drew the wrong conclusions. This thesis posed questions regarding the transfer of cognitive reading skills between languages from two orthographical systems, in order to challenge the status quo of research. Questions that the field of reading education must address include how will we define transfer within the field of English language learning, what counts as evidence of transfer, and most importantly, how do we implement transfer into reading classroom contexts.
Download or read book Transfer of Cognitive Skills in Learning to Read Chinese L1 and English L2 Among Hk Elementary Students written by 姜源貞 and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning to Read and Spell in Chinese written by Lulin Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning to Read and Spell in Chinese written by L. Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cognitive Neuroscience Studies of the Chinese Language written by Henry S.R. Kao 高尚仁 and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the linguistic constituents and structural components of Chinese characters and words? Does the spoken language provide a basis for reading different writing systems, including Chinese? How do the results of current neuroimaging and electrophysio
Download or read book Reading Development in Chinese Children written by Catherine McBride-Chang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reviews both similarities and unique cultural, linguistic, and script differences of Chinese relative to alphabetic reading, and even across Chinese regions. Chinese reading acquisition relies upon children's strongly developing analytic skills, as highlighted here. These 16 chapters present state-of-the-art research on diverse aspects of Chinese children's reading development. This edited volume presents research on Chinese children's reading development across Chinese societies. Authors from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, among others, present the latest findings on how Chinese children learn to read. Reading acquisition in Chinese involves some parameters typically not encountered in some other orthographies, such as English. For example, Chinese readers in different regions might speak different, mutually unintelligible languages, be taught to read with or without the aid of a phonetic coding system, and learn different scripts. This book both implicitly and explicitly considers these and other contextual issues in relation to developmental and cognitive factors involved in Chinese literacy acquisition. One of the clearest themes to emerge from this volume is that, across regions, Chinese children, despite lack of explicit teaching of phonetic or semantic character components, learn to read largely by integrating visible print-sound and print-meaning connections. Rather than learning to read Chinese characters by rote, as is sometimes mistakenly believed, these children are analytic learners. Chapters in this book also cover such topics as Chinese children's reading comprehension, cognitive characteristics of good and poor readers, and reading strategies of bilingual and biscriptal readers. This book is a useful reference for anyone interested in understanding either developing or skilled reading of Chinese or for those interested in literacy learning across cultures.
Download or read book Chinese Children s Reading Acquisition written by Wenling Li and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published research and conference presentations on the Chinese language in the last decade have tended to focus on adult language processing. This book provides a comprehensive resource for the critical discussion of major issues in learning to read Chinese from a child acquisition perspective. The combined contributions from researchers in Asian studies, linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, cognitive psychology, reading, and education inform international comparative studies of literacy by making apparent the features of the Chinese culture, language, writing system, and pedagogy that may facilitate or impede the acquisition of literacy.
Download or read book Chinese Literacy Learning in an Immersion Program written by Chan Lü and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines one-way foreign language immersion education in the United States. It provides a clear and rich description of a Chinese (Mandarin) immersion program, its curriculum, instructional materials, assessment activities, parental involvement and student outcomes. The author analyses two studies that document the development of the students’ reading skills in English and Chinese, and the progress of their vocabulary knowledge, lexical inference, and reading comprehension in Chinese. In addition, this book contextualizes the program in its eco-system, including its neighbourhood, school, and the school district, and discusses the importance of school leadership, parental involvement, neighbourhood support and language acquisition planning in making an innovative school program successful. Its concluding chapters offer recommendations for program- and classroom-level practices and suggest pathways for future research on biliteracy learning in Chinese one-way immersion programs. This book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of applied linguistics, second language acquisition and language education.
Download or read book Learning to Read and Write written by Margaret Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, the development of theories about the way children learn to read and write was dominated by studies of English-speaking populations. As we have learned more about the way that children learn to read and write other scripts - whether they have less regularity in their grapheme-phoneme correspondences or do not make use of alphabetic symbols at all - it has become clear that many of the difficulties that confront children learning to read and write English specifically are less evident, or even non-existent, in other populations. At the same time, some aspects of learning to read and write are very similar across scripts. The unique cross-linguistic perspective offered in this book, including chapters on Japanese, Greek and the Scandinavian languages as well as English, shows how the processes of learning to read and spell are affected by the characteristics of the writing system that children are learning to master.
Download or read book INVESTIGATING COGNITIVE ABILIT written by Yujie Qi and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Investigating Cognitive Abilities in Chinese Reading and Dictation: a Training and Correlation Study" by Yujie, Qi, 亓玉杰, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This thesis examines the unique role of writing in reading and dictation as well as the common and unique cognitive abilities related to reading and dictation development among Chinese children. While it is generally accepted that phonological awareness is of critical importance for both reading and spelling in alphabetic languages (Goswami, 2000), writing seems to play an essential role in reading logographic Chinese. Recent correlation studies among young Chinese children (e.g., Tan et al., 2005) and training studies among adult second language learners of Chinese (e.g., Guan et al., 2011) showed that writing is closely related to the learning of Chinese characters. To further examine the underlying mechanism of the contribution of writing in learning Chinese characters, this thesis compared writing training with reading-only training (Study 1a) and with orthographic training (Study 1b) among Grade One primary school children in Mainland China. Study 1 provides evidence of strong but differential writing facilitation effects on the learning of Chinese characters in various aspects including reading and dictation ability. As the findings of Study 1 showed that writing facilitation effect was stronger on dictation performance than on reading performance, it is hypothesized that reading and dictation in Chinese are not like reading and spelling in alphabetic languages since Chinese has its own language-specific features. In order to verify this hypothesis and provide more evidence of how certain cognitive abilities contribute to reading and dictation separately, Study 2 examined the contributions of various aspects of cognitive abilities including non-verbal intelligence, orthographic awareness, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, visual-motor skills, and working memory, to reading and dictation ability among 126 primary school children of two groups (beginning readers and intermediate readers) in Mainland China. Commonalities as well as differences between reading and dictation were identified at different stages of learning. It is found that reading in Chinese depends heavily on phonological awareness, as the universal phonological principle (Perfetti et al., 1992) predicts, but dictation does not, quite unlike the situation in alphabetic languages. However, dictation in Chinese is found to rely more on cognitive abilities that involve some visual orthographic aspects of processing like orthographic awareness and writing skill. These findings have important theoretical as well as pedagogical implications for Chinese literacy development. The training study provides evidence in support of the important role of writing in learning Chinese, as well as the motor programming hypothesis of the writing facilitation effect (Tan et al., 2005). The findings of the correlation study further extend the lexical quality hypothesis (Perfetti, 2007) by showing that differential demands of the quality of lexical representations exist in reading and dictation in Chinese. Specifically, reading depends more on phonological lexical quality and dictation more on orthographic lexical quality. It is therefore proposed that writing practice should be encouraged among young native Chinese children. To better learn to read, phonological awareness should be enhanced, and to better learn to write to dictation, orthographic awareness should be emphasized, together with other
Download or read book The Use of L1 Cognitive Resources in L2 Reading by Chinese EFL Learners written by Shiyu Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the effects of L1 cognitive resources on L2 reading e.g. the effects of L1 reading ability, the ability in L1 mental-structure building, L1 cognitive use in L2 reading, and other related cognitive mechanisms and capacities of EFL learners in China. It integrated test-based and product-oriented as well as VPA-based (verbal protocol analysis) and process-oriented experiments to address the problems of reading in a second language. This book provides several theoretical, methodological and pedagogical insights, including the multidimensional nature of L2 reading and Vygotskyan sociocultural theory as a suitable L2 reading framework, combined approaches on L2 studies, and the rewarding active use of L1 cognitive resources in L2 learning.
Download or read book Metacognitive Awareness and Second Language Reading written by Yao-ying Huang and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Development and Difficulties in Monolingual and Bilingual Chinese Children written by Xi Chen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Chinese reading development, focusing on children in Chinese societies and bilingual Chinese-speaking children in Western societies. The book is structured around four themes: psycholinguistic study of reading, reading disability, bilingual and biliteracy development, and Chinese children’s literature. It discusses issues that are pertinent to improving language and literacy development, and complex cognitive, linguistic, and socio-cultural factors that underlie language and literacy development. In addition, the book identifies instructional practices that can enhance literacy development and academic achievement. This volume offers an integrative framework of Chinese reading, and deepens our understanding of the intricate processes that underlie Chinese children’s literacy development. It promotes research in reading Chinese and celebrates the distinguished and longstanding career of Richard C. Anderson.
Download or read book Reading in a Second Language written by Xi Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience. The book explores reading processes from a number of complementary standpoints, integrating perspectives from fields such as first and second language reading, second language acquisition, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience. The first half examines major factors in second language reading: types of scripts, the cognitive and neural substrates of reading; metalinguistic awareness, word recognition, language transfer, and lexical knowledge. The second part of the book discusses the social and educational contexts in which reading development occurs, including issues related to pedagogy, the use of technology in the classroom, reading disorders, and policy making. Reading in a Second Language provides students with a full, logically organized overview of the primary factors that shape reading development and processes in a second language.
Download or read book Reading Chinese Script written by Jian Wang and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which includes both Chinese and leading Western researchers, will be of interest to all those studying reading and visual symbol processing. For cognitive psychologists and cognitive scientists as well as reading researchers.
Download or read book LEARNING TO READ IN 2 LANGUAGE written by Kar-Man Kathy Shum and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Learning to Read in Two Languages: Chinese and English" by Kar-man, Kathy, Shum, 沈嘉敏, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Can children's early reading abilities in their first language (L1) predict later literacy development in a second language (L2)? The cross-language relationships between Chinese (L1) and English (L2) among87 elementary school children in Hong Kong were explored in a longitudinal study. Chinese word reading fluency, Chinese rapid digit naming, and Chinese rhyme awareness at age 7 (Grade 1), with age and nonverbal IQ taken into account, were significant concurrent and longitudinal predictors of English word reading, and text-level reading and writing skills across ages 7 to 10. These three measures in Chinese together accounted for 16-28% of unique variance in the English literacy tasks across the three-year period. Moreover, children who showed word reading difficulties in Chinese at Grade 1 also performed significantly worse than average Chinese readers in English reading and related cognitive tasks later on, especially on phonological tasks. Results in this study provided evidence for cross-language transfer of cognitive-linguistic abilities between two distinctly different orthographies. L1 markers underlying reading difficulties in both L1 and L2 can help identify L2 learners at risk for later reading problems, even when their L2 proficiency is too limited to render proper identification. This may in turn facilitate better allocation of educational resources and targeting of early intervention programs. Based on the finding that Chinese word reading fluency was one of the strongest longitudinal predictors of English literacy development, an intervention study was conducted to explore whether repeatedly reading aloud a variety of written symbols can improve word reading fluency performance in Chinese and English. Fifty-nine Grade 2 Hong Kong Chinese children were randomly assigned to either computer-based training on repeated oral reading of digits, alphabetical letters, Chinese characters, and English words, without corrective feedback (experimental group), or online arithmetic games (control group). Reading-aloud training conducted twice a week for 7 weeks significantly improved word reading fluency in both Chinese and English, in contrast to the control group. By contrast, the experimental and control groups did not differ significantly for improvement in word reading accuracy and in the rapid naming of digits and letters. Implications for possible mechanisms underlying the observed intervention effects of repeated oral reading are discussed. Subjects: Reading, Psychology of
Download or read book Teaching Languages to Adolescent Learners written by Rosemary Erlam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader-friendly publication on teaching modern languages to adolescents, which draws on theory as well as examples from real classrooms.
