Cross-cultural similarities in the predictors of reading acquisition

Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1392-1407

  McBride Chang, Catherine ^a   Kail, Robert V ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; READING; VISION;

CHILD; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036728288     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00479     Document Type: Article

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