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Xu, Qinfang; Tao, Sha; Li, Shifeng; Wang, Wenjing; Li, Beilei; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the profiles of nonresponders among native Chinese-speaking students struggling in English reading before and after an intensive intervention in phonological awareness as well as letter knowledge. Struggling English learners (n = 72) were screened from 668 Grade 4 students based on their English word…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Response to Intervention
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Bhide, Adeetee; Luo, Wencan; Vijay, Nivita; Perfetti, Charles; Wang, Jingtao; Maries, Adrian; Nag, Sonali – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Previous research with alphasyllabaries has shown that children struggle with akshara that have two or more consonants, known as complex akshara. We developed a mobile game that teaches 4th grade children Hindi decoding skills, with an emphasis on complex akshara. All of the children were second language learners of Hindi. There were two versions…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning, Decoding (Reading), Educational Games
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Yang, Chi Cheung Ruby; Chen, Yuanyuan – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The present study was conducted to investigate the use of a flipped classroom in primary EFL classrooms in China. It is quasi-experimental research examining flipped and non-flipped classrooms in teaching English vowel letters in a primary school in China. Specifically, the researchers aimed at finding out the participating students' and teachers'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Kahn-Horwitz, Janina; Sparks, Richard L.; Goldstein, Zahava – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
English as a foreign language (EFL) spelling was examined longitudinally three times (4th, 9th, 12th grades) during 9 years of EFL study among Hebrew first language (L1) students. The study examined the impact of L1 literacy variables including phonemic awareness, word attack, and spelling on EFL spelling and the relationship between EFL literacy…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition, Grade 12
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Berube, Daniel; Marinova-Todd, Stefka H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
The relationship between first language (L1) typology, defined as the classification of languages according to their structural characteristics (e.g. phonological systems and writing systems), and the development of second (L2) and third (L3) language skills and literacy proficiency in multilingual children was investigated in this study. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Multilingualism, Language Classification, Grade 4
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Yin, Li; Anderson, Richard C.; Zhu, Jin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Developmental stages in reading English words were examined among 118 Chinese children in Grades 2, 4, and 6 from a working-class elementary school in Tianjin, China. Proficiency in Chinese and English, ability to make orthographic analogies in both languages, and strategies in reading English words were assessed. Results suggest that Chinese…
Descriptors: Vowels, Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Grade 2