ERIC Number: EJ984757
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1034-912X
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Training Orthographic and Sentence Structures Helps Poor Readers in Chinese
Leong, Che Kan; Ho, Man Koon
International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, v59 n4 p359-378 2012
We trained 36 12-year-old Chinese students with reading disorders in the analysis, synthesis and integration of orthographic constituents of semantic and phonetic "bujians" (radicals); and also their writing (spelling and composing) skills. These target students were compared with 37 age-controls in a pre-test and post-test design on a number of reading literacy indicators predicated on the "Blueprint of the Reader". The tasks were: essay writing; morphological compounding; correction of errors; segmentation; text comprehension; fluency; copying of words, and of texts; writing to dictation; and reading aloud words and text. A promax oblique structure analysis of the performance of the 73 students found the tasks clustered into four components. A two (group) x 11 (tasks) multivariate analysis of covariance with the pre-training tasks as covariates followed by analyses of variance showed that the experimental students outperformed their age-peers in essay writing, morphological compounding, correction of errors, text comprehension and reading text aloud. They were also highly satisfied with their training as shown in a questionnaire survey. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Semantics, Test Construction, Reading Difficulties, Multivariate Analysis, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Sentences, Spelling, Phonetics, Comparative Analysis, Pretests Posttests, Reading, Literacy, Reading Aloud to Others, Statistical Analysis, Questionnaires, Vocabulary, Verbal Communication, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Chinese
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 7
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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