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Yan, Cathy Ming Wai; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wagner, Richard K.; Zhang, Juan; Wong, Anita M. Y.; Shu, Hua – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
There were two goals of the present study. The first was to create a scoring scheme by which 9-year-old Chinese children's writing compositions could be rated to form a total score for writing quality. The second was to examine cognitive correlates of writing quality at age 9 from measures administered at ages 6-9. Age 9 writing compositions were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Childrens Writing, Writing Ability
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Lin, Dan; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Aram, Dorit; Levin, Iris – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
The present study examined the relations of Chinese word reading and writing to both maternal mediation of writing and a number of metalinguistic and cognitive skills in 63 Hong Kong Chinese kindergarteners. The whole process of maternal mediation of writing, in which mothers individually facilitated their children's writing of 12 two-character…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Mothers, Metalinguistics, Phonological Awareness
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Lin, Dan; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Aram, Dorit; Levin, Iris; Cheung, Rebecca Y. M.; Chow, Yvonne Y. Y.; Tolchinsky, Liliana – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Two scales of mothers' mediation of their children's writing based on Aram and Levin (2001) were developed and tested in 67 mother-child Hong Kong Chinese dyads in three grade levels--second-year kindergarten, third-year kindergarten, and first grade. With children's ages, grades, and non-verbal IQs, as well as mothers' education levels…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Writing Strategies, Mothers, Incidence