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Jiang, Nan; Hou, Fengyun; Jiang, Xin – Modern Language Journal, 2020
In studying the relationship between word recognition and reading development, a distinction is made between analytic and holistic processing of words. These strategies are often assessed in a length effect in an alphabetic language or in a stroke-number effect in a logographic language. Analytical processing is associated with a robust length or…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reading Processes, Holistic Approach, Reading Strategies
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Hayes, Edmund B. – Modern Language Journal, 1988
Compares the reading processing strategies of native and proficient nonnative speakers of Chinese. At the word level natives show a phonological strategy, while nonnatives mix phonological and visual processing. At the sentence level natives mix visual and semantic strategies, and nonnatives prefer visual processing. (LMO)
Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Ideography, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers
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Swaffar, Janet K. – Modern Language Journal, 1988
Considers current research on reading in a second language from five points of view: (1) the reader's role in light of new models of language and textual meaning; (2) revised definitions of textual meaning and reader processing; (3) reader processing of schemata; (4) relationship between second-language competency and reader strategies; and (5)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Eye Fixations, Language Proficiency, Literature Reviews