ERIC Number: EJ872736
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Mar
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0922-4777
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Cross-Language Transfer of Insight into the Structure of Compound Words
Zhang, Jie; Anderson, Richard C.; Li, Hong; Dong, Qiong; Wu, Xinchun; Zhang, Yan
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v23 n3-4 p311-336 Mar 2010
Cross-language transfer of awareness of the structure of compound words was investigated among native speakers of Chinese who were learning English as a second language. Chinese fifth graders received instruction in the morphology of four types of compound words in either Chinese or English. They then completed both the Chinese and English versions of a compound word structure analogy task. Compared with children who received no instruction, children who received instruction in Chinese were able to transfer knowledge they had acquired of compound types in Chinese to comparable types in English. Reverse transfer from English to Chinese was found among children with high reading proficiency.
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Native Speakers, Chinese, English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Ability, Transfer of Training, Native Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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