Learning to read and spell English words by Chinese students

Learning to read and spell English words by Chinese students

• 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

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
    • GBD Teaching Methods of Reading Comprehension & Their Outcomes, Vocabulary Teaching
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
    • GBC Teaching Methods of Listening, Conversation, Speech & Their Outcomes

Foreign Countries English (Second Language) Chinese Spelling Reading Aloud to Others Structural Equation Models Phonology Item Analysis Goodness of Fit Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 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.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 10888438

• 10.1207/s1532799xssr0901_5

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