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Chik, Pakey Pui-man; Ho, Connie Suk-han; Yeung, Pui-sze; Chan, David Wai-ock; Chung, Kevin Kien-hoa; Luan, Hui; Lo, Lap-yan; Lau, Wendy Suet-yee – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The present study examined the role of syntactic skills for reading comprehension in Chinese. Two hundred and seventy-two Chinese children were tested on their phonological processing, orthographic, morphological, syntactic, and literacy skills at Grades 1 and 2. Hierarchical multiple regression results showed that syntactic skills, in terms of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Chinese, Sentences
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Terry, J. Michael; Jackson, Sandra C.; Evangelou, Evangelos; Smith, Richard L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
This study tests the extent to which giving credit for African American English (AAE) responses on a General American English sentence imitation test mitigates dialect effects. Forty-eight AAE-speaking second graders completed the Recalling Sentences subtest of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition (1995). A Bayesian…
Descriptors: Sentences, Black Dialects, Markov Processes, Syntax