“Stroke Sequence, Working Memory and Chinese Reading Ability in Chinese Children”

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (0) ◽  
pp. 413-460
Author(s):  
Linda Boon Joyce ◽  
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Min Xu
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Chinese Reading ◽  
Stroke Sequence

A Longitudinal Study of Phonological Awareness, Visual Skills, and Chinese Reading Acquisition among First-graders in Taiwan

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Huang ◽  
J. Richard Hanley
Keyword(s):  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
First Year ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Chinese Reading ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
Paired Associates ◽  
Visual Skills

The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether a child’s phonological awareness and visual skills before instruction in school had any predictive power for later Chinese reading ability among 1st-graders in Taiwan. The study also examined the extent to which phonological awareness and visual skills varied in three separate testing sessions during the 1st grade. These testing sessions took place just before the children had learned the alphabetic system Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hao, immediately after the children had learnt Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hao, and, finally, at the end of the first year of schooling. Forty 6-year-old Chinese children from Taiwan took part in the study. The test materials included a Chinese Characters Reading Test, a set of Phonological Awareness tests, a Visual Paired Associates learning test, and a vocabulary and IQ test. Phonological awareness at the first testing session was found to be significantly related to the ability to read Chinese characters at the end of the first year. However, the predictive power of early phonological awareness decreased markedly when the effects of preschool reading scores were partialled out. Therefore, the study provided evidence that phonological processes are significantly related to success in the first year of Chinese reading, but was unable to establish whether or not differences in phonological skills are a cause of differences in the reading ability of Chinese children. In addition 10 weeks of instruction in Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hao led to an increase in performance on all tests of phonological awareness. This is consistent with the view that learning an alphabetic script improves phonological awareness ability.

scholarly journals Working memory, reading ability and the effects of distance and typicality on anaphor resolution in children

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 622-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly S. S. L. Joseph ◽  
Georgina Bremner ◽  
Simon P. Liversedge ◽  
Kate Nation
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Anaphor Resolution

Working memory, intelligence and reading ability in children

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1007-1020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter de Jonge ◽  
Peter F. de Jong
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Reading Ability

scholarly journals The Influence of Articulatory Suppression on Reading Among Chinese Children with Developmental Dyslexia: An Eye-Movement and Case-Control Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuhong Li ◽  
Weidong Li ◽  
Buyun Liu ◽  
Jinxin Zhang ◽  
Jingwen Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Developmental Dyslexia ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Articulatory Suppression ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Phonological Loop ◽  
Eye Tracker ◽  
Core Deficit

Abstract Background: In Western countries, phonological processing deficit was regard as a core deficit in developmental dyslexia (DD). As Chinese is a logographic language, it’s still controversial whether and how the articulatory suppression influences reading ability and processing of Chinese children with DD. The study aimed to examine how the phonological loop influences reading ability and processing in Chinese children with DD.Methods: This study included 30 children with DD and 37 children without DD. Two types of articles (i.e., scenery prose and narrative story) and two conditions (under the conditions of articulatory-suppression and silent reading) were applied. An eye-link II High-Speed Eye Tracker was used to track a series of eye-movement parameters. The data was analyzed by the linear Mixed-Effects model. Results: Compared with children without DD, Children with DD had lower reading achievement (RA), frequency of saccades (FS) and frequency of fixations (FF), longer reading time (RT) and average fixation duration (AFD), slower reading speed (RS), shorter average saccade amplitude (ASA) and fixation distance (FD), more number of fixations (NF) and number of saccades (NS). There were significant interactions between participant group and articulatory suppression on RT and FD. We also observed interaction effects between article types and articulatory suppression on RA, AFD, ASA, and FS.Conclusion: Children DD exhibit abnormal phonological loop and eye movements while reading. The role of the articulatory suppression on reading varies with the presentation of DD and the article type.

scholarly journals A Longitudinal Study of the Relations Between Theory of Mind, Executive Function, and Lying in Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changzhi Zhao ◽  
Siyuan Shang ◽  
Alison M. Compton ◽  
Genyue Fu ◽  
Liyang Sai
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Executive Function ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Emotion Understanding ◽  
False Belief ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
False Belief Understanding ◽  
Knowledge Access

This study used longitudinal cross-lagged modeling to examine the contribution of theory of mind (ToM), executive function (EF) to children’s lying development and of children’s lying to ToM and EF development. Ninety-seven Chinese children (initial Mage = 46 months, 47 boys) were tested three times approximately 4 months apart. Results showed that the diverse desire understanding and knowledge access understanding components of ToM, as well as the inhibitory control component of EF predicted the development of children’s lying, while the diverse belief understanding and false belief understanding components of ToM, and the working memory component of EF did not predict development of children’s lying. Meanwhile, children’s lying predicted development of children’s belief-emotion understanding components of ToM, but not any other ToM components, or EF components. These findings provide longitudinal evidence for the relation between ToM, EF, and children’s lying during the preschool years.

scholarly journals The Influence of Articulatory Suppression on Reading Among Chinese Children With Developmental Dyslexia: An Eye-Movement Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuhong Li ◽  
Weidong Li ◽  
Buyun Liu ◽  
Jinxin Zhang ◽  
Jingwen Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Developmental Dyslexia ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Articulatory Suppression ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Phonological Loop ◽  
Eye Tracker ◽  
Movement Parameters

Objective: The study aimed to examine how the phonological loop influences reading ability and processing in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia (DD).Methods: This study included 30 children with DD and 37 children without DD. Two types of articles (i.e., scenery prose and narrative story) and two conditions (under the conditions of articulatory-suppression and silent reading) were applied. An eye-link II High-Speed Eye Tracker was used to track a series of eye-movement parameters. The data were analyzed by the linear Mixed-Effects model.Results: Compared with children without DD, Children with DD had lower reading achievement (RA), frequency of saccades (FS) and frequency of fixations (FF), longer reading time (RT) and average fixation duration (AFD), slower reading speed (RS), shorter average saccade amplitude (ASA) and fixation distance (FD), more number of fixations (NF), and number of saccades (NS). There were significant interactions between participant group and articulatory suppression on RT and FD. We also observed interaction effects between article types and articulatory suppression on RA, AFD, ASA, and FS.Conclusion: Children DD exhibit abnormal phonological loop and eye movements while reading. The role of articulatory suppression on reading varies with the presentation of DD and the article type.

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