Text Comprehension in Chinese Children: Relative Contribution of Verbal Working Memory, Pseudoword Reading, Rapid Automatized Naming, and Onset-Rime Phonological Segmentation

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135-149

  Leong, Che Kan ^a,b   Tse, Shek Kam ^c   Loh, Ka Yee ^c   Hau, Kit Tai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese text comprehension; pseudoword reading; verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749131656     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.100.1.135     Document Type: Article

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