Syntactic skills in sentence reading comprehension among Chinese elementary school children

Reading and Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 679-699

  Chik, Pakey Pui man ^a   Ho, Connie Suk han ^b   Yeung, Pui sze ^b   Chan, David Wai ock ^c   Chung, Kevin Kien hoa ^a   Luan, Hui ^d   Lo, Lap yan ^e   Lau, Wendy Suet yee ^f  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e HONG KONG SHUE YAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Chinese; Reading comprehension; Syntactic skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857138304     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9293-4     Document Type: Article

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