Journal Articles
Chinese preschool children's literacy development: From emergent to conventional writing
- Chinese preschool children's literacy development: From emergent to conventional writing
- Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 28(2), 135-148, 2008
- Routledge
- 2008
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Pre-Primary Education
- A Chinese script is represented by Chinese characters and each character is a square-shaped configuration with condensed strokes. Children in Hong Kong are explicitly taught to write at a very young age. They are guided to draw vertical and horizontal lines at age three, and are required to write simple characters with few strokes at age four. When children are ready for formal schooling at age six, many of them can write around 50-60 characters. Typical writing lessons consist of penmanship drills and assigned character copying tasks, but in some preschools teachers have begun to change the writing curriculum and make a distinction between emergent literacy and conventional literacy. Early writings are marked by scribbles, drawings and invented spellings, and these are regarded as signs of active exploration for children to understand the writing system. The present study introduces the learning experience of a four-year-old girl who was encouraged by her teacher and parents to be an emergent writer. Her writings went through several stages of development within a year, and her spontaneous experiments with writing in the initial stage contributed significantly to her becoming a fairly independent and confident writer. [Copyright of Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09575140801945304]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 09575146
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/b4545677
- 2010-09-06
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