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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Discourse-Level Reading Comprehension in Chinese Children: What Is the Role of Syntactic Awareness?
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Tong, Xiuhong; Tong, Xiuli; Shu, Hua; Chan, Shingfong; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
This study aimed to investigate the association between syntactic awareness and discourse-level reading comprehension in 136 Hong Kong Chinese children. These children, aged 11, from a longitudinal study, were administered a set of cognitive and linguistic measures. Partial correlational analyses showed that children's performances in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Syntax, Longitudinal Studies
General Auditory Processing, Speech Perception and Phonological Awareness Skills in Chinese-English Biliteracy
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Chung, Kevin K. H.; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Cheung, Him; Wong, Simpson W. L. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
This study focused on the associations of general auditory processing, speech perception, phonological awareness and word reading in Cantonese-speaking children from Hong Kong learning to read both Chinese (first language [L1]) and English (second language [L2]). Children in Grades 2--4 ("N" = 133) participated and were administered measures of…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Auditory Perception, Phonological Awareness
Chinese Children's Character Recognition: Visuo-Orthographic, Phonological Processing and Morphological Skills
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Li, Hong; Shu, Hua; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Liu, Hongyun; Peng, Hong – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
Tasks tapping visual skills, orthographic knowledge, phonological awareness, speeded naming, morphological awareness and Chinese character recognition were administered to 184 kindergarteners and 273 primary school students from Beijing. Regression analyses indicated that only syllable deletion, morphological construction and speeded number naming…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Phonological Awareness, Character Recognition, Chinese
Longitudinal Predictors of Very Early Chinese Literacy Acquisition
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Tong, Xiuli; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Shu, Hua; Reitsma, Pieter; Rispens, Judith – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
This 2-year longitudinal study examined both concurrent and longitudinal relations of a variety of reading-related cognitive tasks and Chinese word reading and word dictation among 187 Hong Kong Chinese kindergarteners aged 4-6. Homophone awareness, visual skills and syllable awareness were all uniquely associated with Chinese word reading across…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbal Communication, Syllables, Chinese
Mother-Child Joint Writing in Chinese Kindergarteners: Metalinguistic Awareness, Maternal Mediation and Literacy Acquisition
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Lin, Dan; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Aram, Dorit; Levin, Iris – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
The present study examined the relations of Chinese word reading and writing to both maternal mediation of writing and a number of metalinguistic and cognitive skills in 63 Hong Kong Chinese kindergarteners. The whole process of maternal mediation of writing, in which mothers individually facilitated their children's writing of 12 two-character…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Mothers, Metalinguistics, Phonological Awareness
Parent-Child Reading in English as a Second Language: Effects on Language and Literacy Development of Chinese Kindergarteners
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Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Cheung, Him – Journal of Research in Reading, 2010
This study investigated the effects of dialogic parent-child reading in English on 51 Hong Kong kindergarteners learning English as a second language. Children were pre-tested on nonverbal IQ, reading interest and receptive vocabulary, word reading and phonological awareness in both Chinese and English. They were then assigned randomly to one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, English