ERIC Number: EJ931681
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Aug
Pages: 25
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Cognitive Skills and Literacy Performance of Chinese Adolescents with and without Dyslexia
Chung, Kevin K. H.; Ho, Connie S.-H.; Chan, David W.; Tsang, Suk-Man; Lee, Suk-Han
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v24 n7 p835-859 Aug 2011
The present study sought to identify cognitive abilities that might distinguish Hong Kong Chinese adolescents with dyslexia and to assess how these abilities were associated with Chinese word reading, word dictation, and reading comprehension. The cognitive skills of interest were morphological awareness, visual-orthographic knowledge, rapid naming, and verbal working memory. A total of 90 junior secondary school students, 30 dyslexic, 30 chronological age controls, and 30 reading level controls was tested on a range of cognitive and literacy tasks. Dyslexic students were less competent than the control students in all cognitive and literacy measures. The regression analyses also showed that verbal working memory, rapid naming, morphological awareness, and visual-orthographic knowledge were significantly associated with literacy performance. Findings underscore the importance of these cognitive skills for Chinese literacy acquisition. Overall, this study highlights the persistent difficulties of Chinese dyslexic adolescents who seem to have multiple causes for reading and spelling difficulties. (Contains 6 tables.)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Age, Reading, Dyslexia, Adolescents, Program Effectiveness, Short Term Memory, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Identification, Secondary School Students, Multiple Regression Analysis, Control Groups, Literacy, Task Analysis, Spelling
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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