Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World Building Strategies Across Scripts /

• Main Author: Williams, Clay (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Springer Texts in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Language and education.; Language Education.

This book investigates inherent, structural differences in the Chinese and English writing systems which predispose learners from childhood to develop specific literacy-learning strategies, which can impair later efforts at learning foreign language literacy if the foreign language script varies sig...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introductions to Literacy
• Chapter 2 The Chinese Language
• Chapter 3 Chinese Elementary Education
• Chapter 4 English Education in the Chinese Classroom
• Chapter 5 Chinese on the Brain
• Chapter 6 Default Reading Strategies: English and Chinese
• Chapter 7 Reading against the stream: Using the wrong strategies to acquire L2 literacy
• Chapter 8 A better way: Teaching English from the ground up.