Download or read book Phonological Awareness and Visual Skills in Learning to Read Chinese and English written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Role of Phonological Awareness and Visual Skills in Learning to Read Chinese and English written by Hsiu-Shaung Huang and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ROLE OF PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS written by Wai-Ting Siok and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Role of Phonological Awareness and Visual-orthographic Skills in Chinese Reading Acquisition" by Wai-ting, Siok, 蕭慧婷, 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: Abstract of thesis entitled 'The Role Of Phonological Awareness And Visual-Orthographic Skills In Chinese Reading Acquisition' submitted by Siok Wai Ting for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in March 2001 This study examined the role of phonological awareness and visuo- orthographic processing skills in the development of Chinese reading abilities. Research using alphabetic languages has generally shown that phonological awareness, the ability to conceive of spoken words as sequences of smaller units of sound segments, is strongly related to success in reading. In particular, phonological awareness measured at both the onset- rime and the phonemic level relates to alphabetic reading success. Written Chinese has a logographic feature where the characters map onto the morpheme and cannot be pronounced by recourse to grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules. It is likely that the nature of phonological awareness that relates to Chinese reading is different from that of English. The study recruited 154 1st to 5th graders in Beijing. Before they were taught to read Chinese characters, these subjects had learned an alphabetic script known as Hanyu Pinyin, which helps the association of a visual character form and its pronunciation in later reading acquisition. Children's performance on tests of various cognitive skills, reading ability and pinyin knowledge were examined. Specifically, phonological awareness was assessed by 4 tasks that varied in linguistic complexity (onset-rime, tonal and phonemic level) to ascertain which level of phonological units best predicts Chinese reading. These subjects were tested again one year later on measures of reading ability and pinyin knowledge to discover the longitudinal relationship of these measures with the various cognitive skills. Results using the hierarchical multiple regression and the structural equation approach showed that (1) visual skills predicted reading success at lower grades, (2) pinyin knowledge and the ability to discriminate homophonic characters were longitudinally predictive of later reading success, (3) onset-rime awareness, but not phonemic awareness, predicted Chinese reading, and (4) there was a reciprocal relationship between pinyin knowledge and reading success. These findings suggest that learning to read Chinese progresses from a logographic phase to an orthographic- phonological phase and that the nature of phonological awareness predicting reading success is contingent on the characteristics of the writing system. Moreover, this study has demonstrated the importance and effectiveness of the adoption of pinyin as a learning tool from a psychological perspective. These findings have important implications for education in Hong Kong, where no phonetic script is adopted to aid Chinese reading, unlike reading acquisition in Taiwan or Mainland China. Learning to read Chinese in Hong Kong is painstaking, which involves tremendous amount of rote memory and writing exercises, and children have difficulties in reading Chinese texts at home as there is no guidance on how to pronounce unfamiliar Chinese characters. Without teacher's or parents' help, Hong Kong children do not know the sounds of newly encountered characters, unlike Mainland children who can read with the help of pinyin. This casts doubts on the effectiveness of using Chinese as the instruction medium in Ho

Download or read book The Role of Phonological Awareness and Visual Skills in Reading English and Chinese in Bilingual Singaporean Chinese Children written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book General Visual and Visual orthographic Skills in Learning to Read Chinese Characters written by Yang Luo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese orthography consists of visually complex characters, which leads to the belief that visual processing is important. This study examined the extent to which general visual and visual-orthographic skills predicted children's. Chinese character reading in China and Canada. Participants were 122 children in China and 93 children in Canada from kindergarten to Grade 2. General visual skills were measured with three subtests of the Test of Visual-Perceptual Skills (TVPS)-Revised (Gardner, 1996). Visual-orthographic skills were measured by three visual-orthographic (VO) experimental tasks. Children were also tested on character reading, rapid digit naming, phonological awareness and phonological strategy use. The study showed children in China outperformed their Canadian counterparts in visual-orthographic processing, but not in general visual processing. Compared with general visual skills, visual-orthographic skills were a better predictor of Chinese character reading. Further, the importance of visual skills in predicting character reading decreased from kindergarten to Grade 2.

Download or read book Cross Language Studies of Learning to Read and Spell written by C.K. Leong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is based on the proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute (AS I) sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held in Alvor, Algarve, Portugal. A number of scholars from different countries participated in the two-week institute on Cognitive and linguistic aspects of reading, writing, and spelling. The present papers are further versions with modifications and refinements from those presented at the Advanced Study Institute. Several people and organizations have helped us in this endeavor and their assistance is gratefully acknowledged. Our special thanks are to: the Scientific Affairs division of NATO for providing the major portions of the financial support, Dr. L.V. da Cunha of NATO and Dr. THo Kester and Mrs. Barbara Kester of the International Transfer of Science and Technology of the various aspects of the institute; and (ITST) for their help and support the staff of Hotel Alvor Praia for making our stay a pleasant one by helping us to run the institute smoothly.

Download or read book The Impact of Learning to Read on Visual Processing written by Tânia Fernandes and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading is at the interface between the vision and spoken language domains. An emergent bulk of research indicates that learning to read strongly impacts on non-linguistic visual object processing, both at the behavioral level (e.g., on mirror image processing – enantiomorphy) and at the brain level (e.g., inducing top-down effects as well as neural competition effects). Yet, many questions regarding the exact nature, locus, and consequences of these effects remain hitherto unanswered. The current Special Topic aims at contributing to the understanding of how such a cultural activity as reading might modulate visual processing by providing a landmark forum in which researchers define the state of the art and future directions on this issue. We thus welcome reviews of current work, original research, and opinion articles that focus on the impact of literacy on the cognitive and/or brain visual processes. In addition to studies directly focusing on this topic, we will consider as highly relevant evidence on reading and visual processes in typical and atypical development, including in adult people differing in schooling and literacy, as well as in neuropsychological cases (e.g., developmental dyslexia). We also encourage researchers on nonhuman primate visual processing to consider the potential contribution of their studies to this Special Topic.

Download or read book Learning to Read and Spell in English Among Chinese English As A Second Language Learners in Hong Kong written by Pui-Sze Yeung and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Learning to Read and Spell in English Among Chinese English-as-a-second-language Learners in Hong Kong" by Pui-sze, Yeung, 楊佩詩, 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: Abstract of thesis entitled 'Learning to read and spell in English among Chinese English-as-a-second-language learners in Hong Kong' submitted by Yeung Pui Sze for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in March 2006 The present study attempted to address the paucity of developmental data on English reading and spelling development among Chinese English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners. English reading and spelling development among Chinese ESL learners in Hong Kong was examined in a one-year longitudinal study covering three developmental periods: Kindergarten to Grade 1, Grade 2 to Grade 3, and Grade 4 to Grade 5. One hundred and fifty five participants were tested on three types of cognitive-linguistic measures (rapid naming, phonological processing, and visual-orthographic processing) and language proficiency measures (English reading, English spelling and Chinese reading). Three major patterns of results were identified. First, the relationships between cognitive-linguistic skills and English proficiency measures differed among Chinese ESL learners of different proficiency levels. Previous research examining the significance of visual-orthographic and phonological skills to English reading and spelling development among Hong Kong Chinese ESL learners has yielded inconsistent results. On one hand, findings in some studies among kindergarteners and Grade 1 students demonstrated the predominant role of phonological skills to English reading and spelling development (Chow, McBride-Chang, & Burgess, 2005; McBride-Chang & Ho, 2005; McBride-Chang & Kail, 2002). On the other hand, the study by Leong, Tan, Cheng and Hau (2005) among Grade 4 - 6 students showed that visual-orthographic skills were of greater significance than phonological skills in predicting English proficiency. Since the participants in these studies were from different age groups, differences in results may simply reflect differences in age or 'stages' of reading and spelling development among the participants. Findings in the 2present study did confirm this speculation: phonological skills were of particular importance to English reading and spelling development among younger participants while the significance of visual-orthographic skills only emerged among older participants. Second, only rapid naming, but not phonological awareness, contributed to English reading and spelling development among young learners (Kindergarteners, Grade 2 and Grade 3 participants). This distinctive pattern departed from the findings among native English speaking children where both rapid naming and phonological awareness were of great significance. This finding further highlighted the importance of rapid naming in reading development in contrast to that of phonological awareness. Third, visual-orthographic skills were found to play a more important role in English spelling than in English reading among the more advanced Chinese ESL learners in the present study. This contradicted Frith's (1985) argument that "orthographic reading is the pacemaker for the development of orthographic spelling" but was actually compatible with the characteristics of the English orthography. The theoretical and pedagogical implications of these findings are discussed. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3572678 Subj

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 The Role of Phonological Awareness and Visual Orthographic Skills on Chinese Reading Acquisitions for Singapore Students written by Ping-Ping Ho and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Role of Phonological Awareness and Visual-orthographic Skills on Chinese Reading Acquisitions for Singapore Students" by Ping-ping, Ho, 何冰冰, 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: DOI: 10.5353/th_b3692400 Subjects: Chinese language - Phonology Chinese characters - Psychological aspects Language awareness in children - Singapore Reading comprehension Chinese language - Study and teaching (Elementary) - Singapore School children - Singapore - Language

Download or read book written by Frank Joseph Shulman and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A descriptively annotated, multidisciplinary, cross-referenced and extensively indexed guide to 2,395 dissertations that are concerned either in whole or in part with Hong Kong and with Hong Kong Chinese students and emigres throughout the world.

Download or read book Handbook of Children s Literacy written by Terezinha Nunes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PETER BRYANT & TEREZINHA NUNES The time that it takes children to learn to read varies greatly between different orthographies, as the chapter by Sprenger-Charolles clearly shows, and so do the difficulties that they encounter in learning about their own orthography. Nevertheless most people, who have the chance to learn to read, do in the end read well enough, even though a large number experience some significant difficulties on the way. Most of them eventually become reasonably efficient spellers too, even though they go on make spelling mistakes (at any rate if they are English speakers) for the rest of their lives. So, the majority of humans plainly does have intellectual resources that are needed for reading and writing, but it does not always find these resources easy to marshal. What are these resources? Do any of them have to be acquired? Do different orthographies make quite different demands on the intellect? Do people differ significantly from each other in the strength and accessibility of these resources? If they do, are these differences an important factor in determining children's success in learning to read and write? These are the main questions that the different chapters in this section on Basic Processes set out to answer.

Download or read book Handbook of Orthography and Literacy written by R. Malatesha Joshi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners. This situation is now changing. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different countries with different language backgrounds have begun examining the connection between their writing systems and literacy acquisition. This text, which derives from a NATO sponsored conference on orthography and literacy, brings together the research of 70 scholars from across the world--the largest assemblage of such experts to date. Their findings are grouped into three parts, as follows: Part I, Literacy Acquisition in Different Writing Systems, describes the relationship between orthography and literacy in twenty-five orthographic systems. This section serves as a handy reference source for understanding the orthographies of languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, English, Icelandic, Kannada, and Kishwahili. Part II, Literacy Acquisition From a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, makes direct comparisons of literacy acquisition in English and other orthographic systems. The overall conclusion that emerges from these eight chapters is that the depth of an orthographic system does influence literacy acquisition primarily by slowing down the acquisition of reading skills. Even so, studies show that dyslexic readers can be found across all orthographic systems whether shallow or deep, which shows that dyslexia also has internal cognitive and biological components. Part III, Literacy Acquisition: Instructional Perspectives, explores literacy acquisition from developmental and instructional perspectives and ends with a look into the future of literacy research. This Handbook is appropriate for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in such diverse fields as cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, literacy education, English as a second language, and communication disorders.

Download or read book Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems written by Ludo Verhoeven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, children embark on learning to read in their home language or writing system. But does their specific language, and how it is written, make a difference to how they learn? How is learning to read English similar to or different from learning in other languages? Is reading alphabetic writing a different challenge from reading syllabic or logographic writing? Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems examines these questions across seventeen languages representing the world's different major writing systems. Each chapter highlights the key features of a specific language, exploring research on learning to read, spell, and comprehend it, and on implications for education. The editors' introduction describes the global spread of reading and provides a theoretical framework, including operating principles for learning to read. The editors' final chapter draws conclusions about cross-linguistic universal trends, and the challenges posed by specific languages and writing systems.

Download or read book Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years written by Hui Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese language is now used by a quarter of the world’s population and is increasingly popular as a second language. Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years comprehensively investigates the psychology, pedagogy and practice involved in teaching Chinese literacy to young children. This text not only explores the psycholinguistic and neuropsychological processing involved in learning Chinese literacy but also introduces useful teaching methods and effective practices relevant for teaching within early years and primary education. Key issues explored within this text include: The Psycholinguistics of Chinese Literacy Neuropsychological Understanding of Chinese Literacy The pedagogy of teaching Chinese as a first language The Pedagogy of Teaching Chinese as a second language Teaching Chinese literacy in early childhood settings Assessing Chinese Literacy Attainment in the Early Years With the addition of two reliable Chinese literacy scales, Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years is an essential text for any student, lecturer or professional teacher who is interested in learning and teaching Chinese literacy.

Download or read book Developmental Dyslexia across Languages and Writing Systems written by Ludo Verhoeven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia.

Download or read book Multilingual Perspectives on Child Language Disorders written by Janet L. Patterson and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates language disorders in children who speak languages other than, or in addition to, English. The chapters in the first section of the volume focus on language disorders associated with four different syndromes in multilingual populations and contexts. This section discusses language disorders associated with autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome and Williams syndrome. The chapters in the second section of the book relate to language impairment in children who speak diverse languages, although the issues they address are relevant across languages and cultural contexts. The book also reviews assessment procedures and intervention approaches for diverse languages, including Bengali, Cantonese, French, Spanish, and Turkish. The volume aims to stimulate thoughtful clinical practice and further research in language disorders in multilingual populations.