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Wang, Xiaochen; Georgiou, George K.; Das, J. P. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of PASS (Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive) processes to Chinese reading accuracy and fluency. One-hundred-forty Grade 3 to 5 Mandarin-speaking children were assessed on measures of PASS processes, phonological awareness, and orthographic knowledge. A year later they were…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Grade 3, Cognitive Processes, Mandarin Chinese
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Liao, Chen-Huei; Georgiou, George K.; Zhang, Xiao; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
We examined the cross-lagged relations between children's task-avoidant behavior and their performance in reading and spelling in Chinese. Eighty Grade 2 and 103 Grade 4 Mandarin-speaking Taiwanese children were assessed on measures of nonverbal IQ, task value, reading accuracy, fluency, and spelling. A year later, the children were reassessed on…
Descriptors: Children, Child Behavior, Reading, Accuracy
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Katzir, Tami; Schiff, Rachel; Kim, Young-Suk – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The different level of transparency of letter-sound mapping in various orthographies has been found to influence reading development across languages. The Hebrew orthography represents a special case of within language design with two versions of the script, a transparent (vowelized) and an opaque one (unvowelized). In this study we conducted a…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Semitic Languages, Speech Communication, Reading Fluency