Morphological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and spelling errors: Keys to understanding early chinese literacy acquisition

Scientific Studies of Reading

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 426-452

  Tong, Xiuli ^a   Mcbride Chang, Catherine ^a   Shu, Hua ^b   Wong, Anita M Y ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 70350315892     PISSN: 10888438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10888430903162910     Document Type: Article

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