The Role of Character Schema in Learning Novel Chinese Characters

Reading Development in Chinese Children

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 109-125

  Tsai, Kuan Chun ^a   Nunes, Terezinha ^b  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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