Linguistic Awareness in Learning to Read Chinese: A Comparative Study of Beijing and Hong Kong Children

Reading Development in Chinese Children

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 91-106

  Chan, Lily ^a   Wang, Lei ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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