Contribution of oral language skills, linguistic skills, and transcription skills to Chinese written composition among fourth-grade students

Contribution of oral language skills, linguistic skills, and transcription skills to Chinese written composition among fourth-grade students

• Yeung, Pui Sze Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong
• Ho, Connie Suk Han Dept. of Psychology, University of Hong Kong
• Chan, David Wai Ock Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa Dept. of Special Education and Counselling, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Discourse Processes: a multidisciplinary journal, 50(7), 498-529, 2013

Routledge

2013

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GA Chinese Language
    • GAC Teaching Methods of Listening, Conversation, Speech & Their Outcomes
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GA Chinese Language
    • GAE Teaching Methods of Composition & Their Outcomes

Oral Communication Communicative Competence Transcription Composition (Language Arts) Chinese Language Fourth Grade (Education)

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

The present study aimed to investigate the contribution of oral language skills, linguistic skills, and transcription skills to Chinese written composition among Grade 4 students in Hong Kong. Measures assessing verbal working memory, oral language skills, linguistic skills (i.e., syntactic skills and discourse skills), transcription skills (i.e., spelling), and written composition were administered to Chinese fourth graders (N = 259). Hierarchical multiple regression results showed that only spelling and syntactic skills contributed significant unique variance to written composition. The relevance of the differences between the spoken Cantonese dialect and Modern Standard Written Chinese to these findings concerning the development of children's written composition is explored.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 0163853X

• 10.1080/0163853X.2013.841070

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2014-09-17