Use of orthographic knowledge in reading by chinese-english Bi-scriptal children

Language Learning

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 469-505

  Cheung, Him ^a,b   Chan, Miranda ^a,b   Chong, Karen ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Department of Psychology ^*

Author keywords

Bi scriptal reading; Chinese characters; Novel object labeling; Orthographic processing; Phonological representation; Reading Chinese; Reading comprehension; Semantic representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748904745     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2007.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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