Morphological awareness and learning to read Chinese

Reading and Writing

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 441-461

  Chung, Wei Lun ^a   Hu, Chieh Fang ^b  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Morphological awareness; Reading ability; Reading Chinese; Semantic transparency; Vocabulary knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249883307     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-006-9037-7     Document Type: Article

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