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Introduction
This chapter introduce the setting, rationale, and the purpose of the book. It also outlines the organization of this book, chapter by chapter.
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One-Way Immersion and Mandarin Immersion in the United States
This chapter defines the terminologies key to this project, including one-way immersion, one-way foreign language immersion, and dual language immersion. In addition, it presents an updated analysis of one-way...
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Pacific Elementary School
This chapter describes the program on which the research projects described in the book were based. The goal is to contextualize the It began with a brief description of the history of the school, and of the C...
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Recommendation for Program-Level Practices and Future Research Agenda
This is the concluding chapter of this book. The goals and findings from the preceding chapters are revisited, based on which recommendations for program-level and classroom-level practices for the focal progr...
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Theoretical Framework, Literature Review, and the Current Project
This chapter first provides the theoretical underpinnings for the studies described in this book, including the component approach to reading, cross-linguistic transfer, and metalinguistic awareness in reading...
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Chinese Language, Orthography, and Learning to Read
This chapter, outlines the characteristics of the Chinese language and orthography, and discusses their implications for learning to read Chinese. Specifically, this chapter describes the phonology and morphol...
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Oral Language, Phonological Awareness, Word Reading, and Passage Reading Comprehension in Grade 2
This chapter describes a study that examined the cross-linguistic relationships among earlier oral language, phonological awareness, word reading and later passage reading comprehension. The participants were ...
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Implications for Chinese Literacy Learning and Instruction in Chinese OWI Programs: A Proposal
This chapter first discusses the limitation of the studies included in this volume; subsequently, based on the findings from the preceding chapters, discusses the implications for vocabulary learning and instr...
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Properties of School Chinese
This chapter analyzes the properties of printed school materials used in the focal program and compares it with those used in other educational settings. The results yielded from the analysis and comparison su...
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Morphological Awareness, Vocabulary Knowledge, Lexical Inference, and Text Comprehension in Chinese in Grade 3
This chapter details a study that examined the relationship among morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, lexical inference skills, and text comprehension in Chinese. The participants were a group of th...
