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Article: Cognitive And Lingusitic Factors Affecting Alphasyllabary Language Users Comprehending Chinese Text
Title | Cognitive And Lingusitic Factors Affecting Alphasyllabary Language Users Comprehending Chinese Text |
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Keywords | Chinese text comprehension Alphasyllabary learners Working memory Orthographic Sentence processing |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | University of Hawaii, College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, Department of Second Language Studies. The Journal's web site is located at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/ |
Citation | Reading in a Foreign Language (Online Edition), 2014, v. 26 n. 1, p. 153-175 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Two groups of 13 to14-year-old alphasyllabary language users (mainly Hindi and Urdu), in integrated or designated school settings (respectively 40 and 48 students), were compared with 59 Chinese students in comprehending 4 elementary Chinese texts, each with three inferential questions requiring short open-ended written answers. Three constructs each with two indicators were hypothesized to predict text comprehension differentially in the three groups: verbal working memory, orthographic processing and sentence processing. The 147 students also completed a short questionnaire on their reading and writing of Chinese, a 43-item Students’ Approaches to Learning and a non-verbal general intelligence test. Multivariate analyses of variance and hierarchical multiple regression analyses point to the significant contribution of verbal span working memory, orthographic choice in context and sentence processing in Chinese to Chinese text comprehension. Educational implications include strengthening teaching the structure and function of Chinese characters and words to enhance text comprehension. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/203505 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.778 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Shum, MSK | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ki, WW | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Leong, CK | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-19T15:16:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-19T15:16:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Reading in a Foreign Language (Online Edition), 2014, v. 26 n. 1, p. 153-175 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1539-0578 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/203505 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Two groups of 13 to14-year-old alphasyllabary language users (mainly Hindi and Urdu), in integrated or designated school settings (respectively 40 and 48 students), were compared with 59 Chinese students in comprehending 4 elementary Chinese texts, each with three inferential questions requiring short open-ended written answers. Three constructs each with two indicators were hypothesized to predict text comprehension differentially in the three groups: verbal working memory, orthographic processing and sentence processing. The 147 students also completed a short questionnaire on their reading and writing of Chinese, a 43-item Students’ Approaches to Learning and a non-verbal general intelligence test. Multivariate analyses of variance and hierarchical multiple regression analyses point to the significant contribution of verbal span working memory, orthographic choice in context and sentence processing in Chinese to Chinese text comprehension. Educational implications include strengthening teaching the structure and function of Chinese characters and words to enhance text comprehension. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Hawaii, College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, Department of Second Language Studies. The Journal's web site is located at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Reading in a Foreign Language (Online Edition) | en_US |
dc.subject | Chinese text comprehension | - |
dc.subject | Alphasyllabary learners | - |
dc.subject | Working memory | - |
dc.subject | Orthographic | - |
dc.subject | Sentence processing | - |
dc.title | Cognitive And Lingusitic Factors Affecting Alphasyllabary Language Users Comprehending Chinese Text | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Shum, MSK: mskshum@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Ki, WW: hraskww@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Shum, MSK=rp00956 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Ki, WW=rp00912 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 239451 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 26 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 153 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 175 | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | United States | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0264-2425 | - |