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Text Comprehension in Chinese Children: Relative Contribution of Verbal Working Memory, Pseudoword Reading, Rapid Automated Naming, and Onset-Rime Phonological Segmentation
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Leong, Che Kan; Tse, Shek Kam; Loh, Ka Yee; Hau, Kit Tai – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
The present study examined the role of verbal working memory (memory span, tongue twister), 2-character Chinese pseudoword reading, rapid automatized naming (letters, numbers), and phonological segmentation (deletion of rimes and onsets) in inferential text comprehension in Chinese in 518 Chinese children in Hong Kong in Grades 3 to 5. It was…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Memory, Foreign Countries
Predictors of Word Decoding and Reading Fluency across Languages Varying in Orthographic Consistency
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Georgiou, George K.; Parilla, Rauno; Papadopoulos, Timothy C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Very few studies have directly compared reading acquisition across different orthographies. The authors examined the concurrent and longitudinal predictors of word decoding and reading fluency in children learning to read in an orthographically inconsistent language (English) and in an orthographically consistent language (Greek). One hundred ten…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Speech Communication, Reading Fluency, Structural Equation Models