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Hsiao, Janet Hui-wen; Shillcock, Richard – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
The complexity of Chinese orthography has hindered the progress of research in Chinese to the same level of sophistication of that in alphabetic languages such as English. Also, there has been no publicly available resource concerning the decomposition of Chinese characters, which is essential in any attempt to model the cognitive processes of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Etymology, Semantics, Romanization
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Wang, Min; Koda, Keiko – Language Learning, 2007
This study examined word identification skills between two groups of college students with different first language (L1) backgrounds (Chinese and Korean) learning to read English as a second language (ESL). Word identification skills were tested in a naming experiment and an auditory category judgment task. Both groups of ESL learners demonstrated…
Descriptors: Identification, Reading Processes, English (Second Language), Word Recognition