Journal Articles
Learning to read and spell English words by Chinese students
- Learning to read and spell English words by Chinese students
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- Leong, Che Kan Dept. of Educational Psychology and Special Education, University of Saskatchewan, Canada ; Dept. of Educational Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Tan, Li Hai Joint Laboratories for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong
- Cheng, Pui Wan Dept. of Educational Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Hau, Kit Tai Dept. of Educational Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Scientific Studies of Reading, 9(1), 63-84, 2005
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- 2005
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Primary Education
- This study examined the structural relationships between (a) the latent independent constructs of orthographic and lexical knowledge and phonological sensitivity and (b) the effect of these constructs on the latent construct of literacy manifested by reading aloud and spelling regular and exception English words in 156 Cantonese- speaking Chinese students (M age = 10.8 years) who were learning English as a second language in Hong Kong. Three carefully designed and item-analyzed indicators subserved the construct of orthographic and lexical knowledge, and another three indicators subserved the construct of phonological sensitivity. Our hypothesis of greater contribution of word-specific orthographic and lexical knowledge than phonological sensitivity to learning to read and spell English words in these Chinese children was supported by results from multiple regression, principal component analyses and especially by structural equation modeling. The various goodness-of-fit indexes showed the appropriateness of the indicators in measuring the latent constructs as well as the relationships among these constructs. [Copyright of Scientific Studies of Reading is the property of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s1532799xssr0901_5]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 10888438
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/a56c5a32
- 2010-09-24
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