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Xiaopeng Zhang; Wenwen Li – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study modeled the effects of essay length and language features on the rated quality of second language (L2) expository and argumentative essays composed by Chinese university students. Latent variables were writing quality captured by essay scores, and lexical sophistication, syntactic complexity and cohesion, each of which was measured by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Essays, Language Usage, College Students
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Nguyen, Thi Phuong; Li, Hong; Feng, Jie; Wu, Xinchun – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study investigated the development of component awareness, semantic radical identification ability, semantic radical knowledge application, Chinese character recognition, and the relationship among these abilities in nonnative speakers. A total of 139 Vietnamese undergraduates majoring in Chinese language who were sorted according to Chinese…
Descriptors: Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Vietnamese People, Undergraduate Students
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Welcome, Suzanne E.; Chiarello, Christine; Halderman, Laura K.; Leonard, Christiana M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
Despite an extensive literature linking individual differences in phonological processing to reading ability, some adults show normal text comprehension abilities despite poor pseudoword reading (Jackson & Doellinger (2002). "Journal of Educational Psychology," 94, 64-78). This study was undertaken to investigate differences between these…
Descriptors: Young Adults, College Students, Differences, Language Processing