Effects of Cross-Language Transfer on First-Language Phonological Awareness and Literacy Skills in Chinese Children Receiving English Instruction

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 712-728

  Chen, Xi ^a   Xu, Fen ^b   Nguyen, Thien Kim ^a   Hong, Guanglei ^a   Wang, Yun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross language transfer; Phonological awareness; Pinyin; Threshold hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955741599     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018802     Document Type: Article

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