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Georgiou, George K.; Inoue, Tomohiro; Zhang, Su-Zhen – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The goal of this study was to examine the cross-lagged relations between vocabulary and word reading in children learning two scripts at the same time (pinyin and Chinese). One hundred fifty-nine third-year kindergarten Chinese children (70 girls and 89 boys; mean age = 72.70 months) were assessed on measures of nonverbal IQ, phonological…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Reading, Written Language, Chinese
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Inoue, Tomohiro; Georgiou, George K.; Hosokawa, Miyuki; Muroya, Naoko; Kitamura, Hiroyuki; Tanji, Takayuki; Imanaka, Hirofumi; Oshiro, Takako; Parrila, Rauno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
We examined whether developing reading skills in the two scripts of Japanese, syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji, had differential effects on underlying cognitive skills. One hundred ninety-one Japanese children (97 girls, 94 boys; M[subscript age] = 100.23 months) were assessed on rapid automatized naming (RAN), vocabulary, morphological…
Descriptors: Japanese, Written Language, Thinking Skills, Reading Skills
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Zhao, Aiping; Guo, Ying; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study examined the direct and indirect relations of foundational language skills (vocabulary, syntactic knowledge, and orthographic knowledge), higher-order cognitive skills (inference making and comprehension monitoring), and word reading to reading comprehension in Chinese. Consistent with the hierarchical relations specified in the Direct…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Vocabulary, Syntax, Written Language
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Dylman, Alexandra S.; Kikutani, Mariko; Sasaki, Miho; Barry, Christopher – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The picture-word task presents participants with a number of pictured objects together with a written distractor word superimposed upon each picture, and their task is to name the depicted object while ignoring the distractor word. Depending on the specific picture and word combination, various effects, including the identity facilitation effect…
Descriptors: Japanese, Written Language, Pictorial Stimuli, Task Analysis
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Mohseni, Fateme; McBride, Catherine – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study aimed to determine the contributions of cognitive linguistic variables to Persian word reading and word dictation. We tested 79 second graders in Iran on different cognitive-linguistic skills, including rapid letter naming, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, orthographic skills, vocabulary knowledge, nonverbal reasoning,…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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Kim, Young-Suk; Petscher, Yaacov – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study investigated relative contributions of initial status and growth rates of emergent literacy skills (i.e., phonological awareness, letter-name knowledge, vocabulary, and rapid serial naming) to initial status and growth rates of conventional literacy skills (i.e., word reading, pseudoword reading, and spelling) for young Korean…
Descriptors: Written Language, Phonological Awareness, Emergent Literacy, Korean