Reading Development and Difficulties in Monolingual and Bilingual Chinese Children

This volume explores Chinese reading development, focusing on children in Chinese societies and bilingual Chinese-speaking children in Western societies. The book is structured around four themes: psycholinguistic study of reading, reading disability, bilingual and biliteracy development, and Chines...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chen, Xi (Editor), Wang, Qiuying (Editor), Luo, Yang Cathy (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Series:Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education, 8
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Psycholinguistic Study of Reading Chinese. Morphological Awareness and Learning to Read Chinese and English
  • Visual, Phonological and Orthographic Strategies in Learning to Read Chinese
  • How Character Reading Can Be Different from Word Reading in Chinese and Why It Matters for Chinese Reading Development
  • Fostering Reading Comprehension and Writing Composition in Chinese Children
  • Exploring the Relationship of Parental Influences, Motivation for Reading and Reading Achievement in Chinese First Graders
  • Reading Disability in Chinese Children. Helping Children with Reading Disability in Chinese: The Response to Intervention Approach with Effective Evidence-Based Curriculum
  • Rapid Automatized Naming and Its Unique Contribution to Reading: Evidence from Chinese Dyslexia
  • Bilingual and Biliteracy Development in Chinese and English. L1-Induced Facilitation in Biliteracy Development in Chinese and English
  • Effect of Early Bilingualism on Metalinguistic Development and Language Processing: Evidence from Chinese-speaking Bilingual Children
  • Contributions of Phonology, Orthography, and Morphology in Chinese-English Biliteracy Acquisition: A One-year Longitudinal Study
  • Children’s literature in Chinese. Chinese Children’s Literature in North America
  • China and Chinese as Mirrored in Multicultural Youth Literature: A Study of Award-Winning Picture Books Featuring Ethnic Chinese from 1993 to 2009.