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Download full textPolland, Mark – 1993
A cross-cultural study examined preschoolers' knowledge of elementary components of the writing system. Subjects were 41 Chinese and 44 American preschool students between the ages of 2 and 4. The students were presented with sets of cards depicting familiar objects, capitalized English letters, and Chinese characters and were asked to turn each…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Chinese, Cross Cultural Studies, English
