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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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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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Liu, Catrina; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study investigated the construct of paired associate learning (PAL) and its associations with Chinese word writing in kindergarten children. A total of 188 Chinese children (95 boys, mean age = 5.65 years; SD = 0.34) from [Xi'an], Mainland China in the third year of kindergarten participated in this study. Children were assessed on measures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Paired Associate Learning, Kindergarten, Executive Function
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Chen, Nga Ting; Zheng, Mo; Ho, Connie Suk-Han – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The present study examines the visual attention span deficit hypothesis in Chinese developmental dyslexia. Twenty-five Cantonese-speaking Chinese dyslexic children (DD group) were compared with 25 chronological-age-matched (CA) controls and another 25 reading-level-matched (RL) controls on their performance in visual attention span, reading, and…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Visual Perception, Attention Span, Reading Skills
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Zhao, Jing; Chen, Si; Tong, Xiuli; Yi, Li – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
This study examined Chinese character recognition and its cognitive and linguistic correlates in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Forty-seven children with ASD and 51 IQ-matched typically developing (TD) children were tested on Chinese character recognition, rapid automatized naming, inhibitory control, digit span, IQ,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders