Levels of phonological awareness in three cultures

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 93-111

  McBride Chang, Catherine ^a   Bialystok, Ellen ^b   Chong, Karen K Y ^a   Li, Yanping ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SHANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Cross cultural; Instruction; Phonological awareness; Psycholinguistics; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; ONTARIO; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

EID: 4544222027     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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