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Hu, Shenai; Zhou, Peng; Foppolo, Francesca; Vender, Maria; Delfitto, Denis – First Language, 2019
This study investigates the derivation of scalar implicatures in Chinese children with reading difficulties (RD). Twenty-four children with RD (mean age 9 years and 8 months), 20 age-matched typical readers (mean age 9 years and 10 months), 20 six-year-old children and 20 five-year-old children were tested with the comprehension of sentences with…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Pragmatics
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Guan, Yao; Farrar, M. Jeffrey – First Language, 2016
Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to identify, reflect upon, and manipulate linguistic units. It plays a critical role in reading development. The present study investigated Chinese- and English-speaking preschoolers' metalinguistic awareness development and the role of cognitive and linguistic abilities in its development. Forty-two…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Preschool Children, Chinese, English