Chinese-English biscriptal reading: Cognitive component skills across orthographies

Reading and Writing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 293-310

  Tong, Xiuli ^a   McBride Chang, Catherine ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bi scriptal reading; Hong Kong Chinese children; Morphological awareness; Phonological awareness; Visual orthographic skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950459315     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9211-9     Document Type: Article

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