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He Sun; Justina Tan; Lin Feng – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Narrative skills play an important role in children's reading, communication, and critical thinking. Most studies on narrative skills are based on monolingual children from middle- to upper middle-class populations and few have examined bilingual children's narratives outside of the western context. These factors may impose different sociocultural…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Learning Strategies, Bilingual Students, Mandarin Chinese
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Wenxiu Zhang; Peng Peng; Chanjuan Peng; Liang Zhang; Yan Wang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the meta-linguistic and executive function profile for different subtypes of reading difficulties (RD) among upper-elementary students. Based on 1,112 third- to fifth-grade Chinese-speaking children, we identified 72 with decoding difficulties (DD), 74 with comprehension difficulties (CD), and 29…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Executive Function, Profiles, Children
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Johnson, Lakeisha; Terry, Nicole Patton; Connor, Carol McDonald; Thomas-Tate, Shurita – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The achievement gaps between poor and more affluent students are persistent and chronic, as many students living in poverty are also members of more isolated communities where dialects such as African American English and Southern Vernacular English are often spoken. Non-mainstream dialect use is associated with weaker literacy achievement. The…
Descriptors: Dialects, Dialect Studies, Nonstandard Dialects, Black Dialects