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Liu, Duo; Chung, Kevin K. H.; McBride, Catherine – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
The present study investigated the relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and word reading in both Chinese (L1) and English (L2), with children's cognitive/linguistic skills considered as mediators and/or moderators. One hundred ninety-nine Chinese kindergarteners in Hong Kong with diverse SES backgrounds participated in this study. SES…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhang, Juan; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Tardif, Twila; Shu, Hua; Zhang, Yuping – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The present study explored the early predictors of reading comprehension difficulties in Chinese children. We originally recruited 290 Beijing and 154 Hong Kong children and further selected from each sample those (30 from Beijing and 22 from Hong Kong sample) in the lowest 25% on reading comprehension tests across the last two consecutive testing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
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Chung, Kevin K. H.; Ho, Connie S.-H.; Chan, David W.; Tsang, Suk-Man; Lee, Suk-Han – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study sought to identify cognitive abilities that might distinguish Hong Kong Chinese adolescents with dyslexia and to assess how these abilities were associated with Chinese word reading, word dictation, and reading comprehension. The cognitive skills of interest were morphological awareness, visual-orthographic knowledge, rapid…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Age, Reading
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Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Ho, Connie Suk-Han – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
This study examined the relations between reading-related cognitive skills and word reading development of Chinese children with dyslexia in their Chinese language (L1) and in English (L2). A total of 84 bilingual children--28 with dyslexia, 28 chronological age (CA) controls, and 28 reading-level (RL) controls--participated and were administered…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Learning Problems, Age, Dyslexia