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Jin Xue; Junjing Zhuo; Juntong Cao; Heng Li; Min Chen; Xuancheng Pan – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Purposes: The effect of intervening on narrative skills in Chinese-speaking school-age children with developmental language disorder (DLD) is underexplored. Methods: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of narrative intervention on written narratives of Chinese children with and without DLD and to explore the potential…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Intervention
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Jie Yang; Ehsan Latif; Yuze He; Xiaoming Zhai – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
The development of explanations for scientific phenomena is crucial in science assessment. However, the scoring of students' written explanations is a challenging and resource-intensive process. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to address these challenges, particularly when the explanations are written in English, an…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Automation, Scoring
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Panpan Yao; Xin Jiang; Xinwei Chen; Xingshan Li – Second Language Research, 2025
The present study explored the processing units of high-proficiency second language (L2) Chinese learners in on-line reading in an eye-tracking experiment. The critical aim was to investigate how learners segment continuous characters into words without the aid of word boundary demarcations. Based on previous studies, the embedded words of 2- and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Reading, Eye Movements
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Chenyi Zhang; Xiao Zhang; Gary E. Bingham; Liying Zhang – Early Education and Development, 2025
This study describes the early writing environments of 16 preschool classrooms in China and 155 Chinese preschoolers' early writing skills as assessed through name writing, word dictation, and early composing tasks. The classroom early writing environment consists of children's accessibility to writing materials, and teachers' writing instruction.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Preschools, Preschool Children
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Wen XU; Garth Stahl – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This paper illustrates how spaces were created for children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to emotionally engage in traditional Chinese literacy practices in a primary school in Sydney, Australia. The ethnographic data allow insight into how ordinary activities organised around character tracing and writing can…
Descriptors: Literacy, Chinese, Written Language, Orthographic Symbols
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YiHsuan Wood; Jeffrey J. Green; Ellen Knell; Yu Liu – Language Awareness, 2025
This study used eye-tracking to investigate the real-time processing of phonetic and semantic radicals (components of Chinese characters that give clues to their pronunciation and meaning) by intermediate-level university Chinese foreign language (CFL) learners. Additionally, the study examined how knowledge and awareness of radicals affect…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Robin E. Harvey; Patricia J. Brooks – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Children learning Chinese must cope with an opaque orthography lacking transparent relations between oral pronunciations and written characters: a challenge heightened for L2 learners. Use of digital Pinyin input may facilitate connections between oral and written language by allowing learners to access vocabulary they cannot yet write. We…
Descriptors: Written Language, Chinese, Language Arts, Grade 4