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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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Ehrich, John Fitzgerald; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; Mu, Jon Congjun; Ehrich, Lisa Catherine – Language Awareness, 2013
In this paper, we argue that second language (L2) reading research, which has been informed by studies involving first language (L1) alphabetic English reading, may be less relevant to L2 readers with non-alphabetic reading backgrounds, such as Chinese readers with an L1 logographic (Chinese character) learning history. We provide both…
Descriptors: Evidence, Neurology, Reading Research, Mandarin Chinese
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Rao, Zhenhui; Gu, Peter Yongqi; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; Hu, Guangwei – Language Awareness, 2007
The research reported here investigated primary school pupils' use of reading strategies. The study differed from most of the previous studies on reading strategies in that (1) the participants were young bilinguals in multicultural Singapore; (2) the data were examined within the Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) framework developed by John…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Improvement, Reading Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Language Awareness, 2001
Reports on a study of 10 Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) readers' metacognitive knowledge of strategies in learning to read EFL in the People's Republic of China, a typical acquisition-poor environment. EFL readers' metacognitive knowledge of strategies was analyzed and interpreted from a broad metacognitive perspective. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Reading Skills