The role of compound awareness in Chinese children's vocabulary acquisition and character reading

Reading and Writing

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 615-631

  Chen, Xi ^a   Hao, Meiling ^a   Geva, Esther ^a   Zhu, Jin ^a   Shu, Hua ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Character reading; Chinese compound awareness; Phonological awareness; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 63949085119     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-008-9127-9     Document Type: Article

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