Contributions of syntactic awareness to reading in Chinese-speaking adolescent readers with and without dyslexia

Dyslexia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-36

  Chung, Kevin K H ^a   Ho, Connie S H ^b   Chan, David W ^c   Tsang, Suk Man ^d   Lee, Suk Han ^b  

^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 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Chinese language; Dyslexia; Reading; Syntactic skills

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; READING; SYNTACTIC AWARENESS; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AWARENESS; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84872806383     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: 10990909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.1448     Document Type: Article

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