The ABC's of Chinese: Maternal mediation of Pinyin for Chinese children's early literacy skills

Reading and Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 283-300

  McBride Chang, Catherine ^a   Lin, Dan ^b   Liu, Phil D ^a,c   Aram, Dorit ^d   Levin, Iris ^d   Cho, Jeung Ryeul ^e   Shu, Hua ^f   Zhang, Yuping ^f  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e Kyungnam University   (South Korea)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Maternal mediation; Pinyin; Word reading; Word writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755162149     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9270-y     Document Type: Article

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