Do Chinese dyslexic children have difficulties learning English as a second language?

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 603-618

  Ho, Connie Suk Han ^a   Fong, Kin Man ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Chinese; Cross language transfer; Developmental dyslexia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS;

CHILD; CHINA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 29144507339     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-005-9166-1     Document Type: Article

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