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Haolan Wang; Ying Zhao; Hongjun Chen; Xinchun Wu; Peng Sun; Yi Zhao – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
This study aimed to examine the unique longitudinal role of theory of mind (ToM) on reading comprehension among primary school children, while controlling for other influencing factors. It also examined how this impact varies by grade, text genre, and processing level. A sample of 430 Chinese children in Grades 2, 4, and 6 was observed over a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Theory of Mind, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries
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Zhao, Ying; Wu, Xinchun – American Annals of the Deaf, 2022
To explore the roles of character recognition, expressive vocabulary, and syntactic awareness in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students' reading fluency, 52 Chinese DHH students (mean age = 13.29 years) in elementary school participated in the present study. The results showed that character recognition, expressive vocabulary, and syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Elementary School Students
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Li, Liping; Zhu, Danli; Wu, Xinchun – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
This study investigated whether listening comprehension played a mediator role between vocabulary and reading comprehension. 127 Mandarin-speaking children were longitudinally assessed at 6;4, 6;10, 7;4, and 7;10. Data were collected in four batteries of tests implemented at the beginning of first grade (T[subscript 1]); at mid-first grade…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Emergent Literacy
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Ke, Sihui – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This research compared the contributions of lexical inferencing, decoding, and listening comprehension to reading comprehension in Chinese-speaking learners of English as a second language (ESL) enrolled in university bridging programs in the U.S. and Chinese-speaking university learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in mainland China.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
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Smythe, Ian; Everatt, John; Al-Menaye, Nasser; He, Xianyou; Capellini, Simone; Gyarmathy, Eva; Siegel, Linda S. – Dyslexia, 2008
Groups of Grade 3 children were tested on measures of word-level literacy and undertook tasks that required the ability to associate sounds with letter sequences and that involved visual, auditory and phonological-processing skills. These groups came from different language backgrounds in which the language of instruction was Arabic, Chinese,…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Spelling, Reading