Contribution of morphological awareness to Chinese-English biliteracy acquisition

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 542-553

  Wang, Min ^a   Cheng, Chenxi ^a   Chen, Shi Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese reading; Cross language transfer; English reading; Morphological awareness; Phonological awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746918705     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.98.3.542     Document Type: Article

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