Chinese character acquisition and visual skills in two Chinese scripts

Reading and Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-128

  McBride Chang, Catherine ^a   Chow, Bonnie W Y ^a   Zhong, Yiping ^b   Burgess, Stephen ^c   Hayward, William G ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Xiangtan Normal University Xiangtan 411201 Hunan PR China   (China)

^c SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Chinese characters; Literacy; Reading; Script; Visual skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144385471     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-004-7343-5     Document Type: Article

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