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Fischer, Jean-Paul; Luxembourger, Christophe – Education Sciences, 2018
Reversing characters (digits and letters) when writing, and complete mirror writing, raise one of the oldest and most mysterious questions in developmental and educational psychology: Why do five-year-old children write symbols (e.g., [reversed E] for E) they have neither learnt nor seen? Attempts to draw up a complete explanatory theory of…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Handwriting, Young Children, Memory
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Chen, Jingjun; Luo, Rong; Liu, Huashan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
With the development of ICT, digital writing is becoming much more common in people's life. Differently from keyboarding alphabets directly to input English words, keyboarding Chinese character is always through typing phonetic alphabets and then identify the glyph provided by Pinyin input-method software while in this process which do not need…
Descriptors: Phonology, Chinese, Semantics, Character Recognition
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Tong, Xiuhong; Tong, Xiuli; McBride, Catherine – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study investigated Chinese children's development of sensitivity to positional (orthographic), phonological, and semantic cues of radicals in encoding novel Chinese characters. A newly designed picture-novel character mapping task, along with nonverbal reasoning ability, vocabulary, and Chinese character recognition were administered to 198…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Grade 2
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Peng, Peng; Wang, Cuicui; Tao, Sha; Sun, Congying – Educational Psychology Review, 2017
The current meta-analysis synthesized findings from profiling research on Chinese children with reading difficulties (RD). We reviewed a total of 81 studies published between 1964 and May 2015, representing a total of 9735 Chinese children. There are 982 effect sizes for the comparison between children with RD and age-matched typically developing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Children, Reading Difficulties
Jia, Hongyi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the present day Mandarin Chinese has become a commonly taught language in the U.S. Mandarin is widely taught in colleges and universities; K-12 Chinese programs, including immersion programs, have also grown rapidly. However, to date little research has been conducted on the latter programs. This study examines immersion programs in elementary…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese, Immersion Programs, Elementary School Students