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McBride-Chang, Catherine; Lin, Dan; Liu, Phil D.; Aram, Dorit; Levin, Iris; Cho, Jeung-Ryeul; Shu, Hua; Zhang, Yuping – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
In the present study, maternal Pinyin mediation and its relations with young Chinese children's word reading and word writing development were explored. At time 1, 43 Mainland Chinese children and their mothers were videotaped on a task in which children were asked to write 12 words in Pinyin (a phonological coding system used in Mainland China as…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Writing (Composition), Mothers, Romanization
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Wrenn, James J. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1975
Discusses the popularization of Putonghua, the common language of the People's Republic of China, and the creation and popularization of a national phonetic alphabet. These two issues are related by the fact that romanization is seen as an important vehicle for the popularization of Putonghua. (CLK)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Chinese, Language Planning, Language Standardization