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Qiuzhi Xie; Susanna Siu-Sze Yeung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study aims to explore the specific contributions of derivational, inflectional, and compounding morphological awareness to reading comprehension through decoding and syntactic awareness. A total of 181 Grade 3 and 4 Chinese primary school children learning English as a second language in Hong Kong participated in this study. The results of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Syntax
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Ming Li; Lubei Zhang – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examined word class effects on Yi students' L2 Chinese word associations. 108 stimulus words, consisting of 36 nouns, 36 verbs, and 36 adjectives, were chosen from Corpus of Modern Chinese, with their frequencies and concreteness being strictly controlled. 80 students from grade 4 and 85 students from grade 10 finished the word…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 4, Grade 10
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Liyan Yu; Jing Huang; Phil Duo Liu; Susanna Siu-Sze Yeung; Dan Lin; Him Cheung; Xiuhong Tong – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background and Aims: This study examined how parenting styles influence children's language skills and reading comprehension. Materials and Methods: Six hundred and eighty-five Chinese-speaking third graders (M[subscript age] = 9.23 years, SD = 0.66; 341 girls) were randomly recruited from eight primary schools. We measured students' primary…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Language Skills, Reading Comprehension, Grade 3
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Guan, Connie Qun; Ye, Feifei; Wagner, Richard K.; Meng, Wanjin; Leong, Che Kan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
The goal of the present study was to test opposing views about 4 issues concerning predictors of individual differences in Chinese written composition: (a) whether morphological awareness, syntactic processing, and working memory represent distinct and measureable constructs in Chinese or are just manifestations of general language ability; (b)…
Descriptors: Chinese, Writing (Composition), Reading Comprehension, Morphology (Languages)