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Zebedee Rui En Cheah; Catherine McBride; Xiangzhi Meng; Jun Ren Lee; Shuting Huo – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
While previous research has documented the unique aspects of Chinese dyslexia as compared to dyslexia in alphabetic scripts, it remains unclear whether the difference in Chinese literacy experiences influences the manifestation of Chinese dyslexia. The present article first reviews the characteristics of Chinese languages and scripts, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Cultural Differences, Chinese
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Raghavendra, Parimala; Fristoe, Macalyne – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1990
Standard or enhanced Blissymbols, designed to represent familiar actions, attributes, and objects, were shown to 20 3 year olds, who guessed their meaning. The number of their guesses that referred to the enhancements was twice as great as the number that referred to the standard Blissymbol base. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Ideography, Literacy, Perceptual Development, Performance Factors
Havelock, Eric A. – 1976
The four essays in this book are concerned with the cultural consequences of literacy in that they demonstrate that some forms of competence, highly valued in society, developed in large part as an unintended consequence of the Greek alphabetic writing system. The first essay, entitled "Spoken Sound and Inscribed Sign," discusses the…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Classical Languages, Cultural Influences, Cultural Interrelationships
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Hubbard, Ruth – Language Arts, 1990
Explores how visual (pictorial) and verbal (linguistic) systems work together and influence each other as young children create symbol systems. Finds that, for young children, color plays a key role in communicating messages. Shows how art and writing (especially color and light) influence each other in children's literacy development. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Color, Educational Research, Ethnography