Skip to main content

11 Result(s)

within Hua Shu Remove this filter Literacy Remove this filter

and

  1. Article

    Open Access

    Longitudinal effects of socioeconomic status on first and second language reading development: evidence from Chinese children learning English

    While it has been shown that socioeconomic status (SES) is important for children’s literacy development in their first language (L1), less is known about its association with reading in a second language (L2)...

    **ger Pan, Catherine McBride, Joyce Lok Yin Kwan, Hua Shu in Reading and Writing (2024)

    Download PDF (1578 KB) View Article

  2. No Access

    Article

    How does home literacy environment influence reading comprehension in Chinese? Evidence from a 3-year longitudinal study

    Although several studies have examined the role of home literacy environment (HLE) in learning to read in Western societies, little is known about the role of HLE in Chinese reading. In addition, the few studi...

    Su-Zhen Zhang, Tomohiro Inoue, Hua Shu, George K. Georgiou in Reading and Writing (2020)

  3. No Access

    Article

    Socioeconomic status, parent report of children’s early language skills, and late literacy skills: a long term follow-up study among Chinese children

    Previous research on the longitudinal prediction of literacy development has focused mainly on the relationship between early cognitive/language skills and late literacy skills. The present study aimed to tes...

    **ger Pan, Yan Kong, Shuang Song, Catherine McBride, Hongyun Liu… in Reading and Writing (2017)

  4. No Access

    Article

    Longitudinal correlates of reading comprehension difficulties in Chinese children

    The present study explored the early predictors of reading comprehension difficulties in Chinese children. We originally recruited 290 Bei**g and 154 Hong Kong children and further selected from each sample t...

    Juan Zhang, Catherine McBride-Chang, Anita M.-Y. Wong, Twila Tardif… in Reading and Writing (2014)

  5. No Access

    Chapter

    Rapid Automatized Naming and Its Unique Contribution to Reading: Evidence from Chinese Dyslexia

    Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is suggested to be a significant predictor of reading. However, how it is related to reading and whether it contributes uniquely to reading with phonological awareness statistica...

    **ger Pan, Hua Shu in Reading Development and Difficulties in Mo… (2014)

  6. No Access

    Chapter

    Visual, Phonological and Orthographic Strategies in Learning to Read Chinese

    The research reported in this chapter examined the development of strategies in learning to read Chinese through three experiments that involved more than 300 children from preschool to grade six. Experiment 1 sh...

    ** Chen, Richard C. Anderson, Hong Li… in Reading Development and Difficulties in Mo… (2014)

  7. No Access

    Article

    Reading with meaning: the contributions of meaning-related variables at the word and subword levels to early Chinese reading comprehension

    This study examined the associations of three levels of meaning acquisition, i.e., whole word (vocabulary), morpheme (morphological awareness), and semantic radical (orthography-semantic awareness) to early Ch...

    Juan Zhang, Catherine McBride-Chang, **uli Tong, Anita M.-Y. Wong… in Reading and Writing (2012)

  8. No Access

    Article

    Writing quality in Chinese children: speed and fluency matter

    There were two goals of the present study. The first was to create a scoring scheme by which 9-year-old Chinese children’s writing compositions could be rated to form a total score for writing quality. The sec...

    Cathy Ming Wai Yan, Catherine McBride-Chang, Richard K. Wagner… in Reading and Writing (2012)

  9. No Access

    Article

    The ABC’s of Chinese: maternal mediation of Pinyin for Chinese children’s early literacy skills

    In the present study, maternal Pinyin mediation and its relations with young Chinese children’s word reading and word writing development were explored. At time 1, 43 Mainland Chinese children and their mother...

    Catherine McBride-Chang, Dan Lin, Phil D. Liu, Dorit Aram… in Reading and Writing (2012)

  10. No Access

    Article

    The role of compound awareness in Chinese children’s vocabulary acquisition and character reading

    This study examined compound awareness in relation to Chinese children's vocabulary acquisition and character reading. Two aspects of compound awareness were investigated: the ability to identify the head of a...

    ** Chen, Meiling Hao, Esther Geva, ** Zhu, Hua Shu in Reading and Writing (2009)

  11. No Access

    Article

    Visual Chunking Skills of Hong Kong Children

    This study investigated the development of visual chunking skills in the processing of Chinese characters among Hong Kong pupils. One-hundred-seventy-nine primary school students from first, second and fourth ...

    Ada K. H. Pak, Alice Cheng-lai, Ivy F. Tso, Hua Shu, Wenling Li… in Reading and Writing (2005)