Properties of School Chinese: Implications for Learning to Read

Child Development

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-47

  Shu, Hua ^a   Chen, Xi ^b   Andersen, Richard C ^b   Wu, Ningning ^a   Xuan, Yue ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; METHODOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; TEACHING; VISION;

CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LOGIC; READING; SEMANTICS; TEACHING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0038349035     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00519     Document Type: Article

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