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Cross-cultural similarities in the predictors of reading acquisition.

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Measures of Chinese character/English word recognition, phonological awareness, speeded naming, visual-spatial skill, and processing speed were administered to 190 kindergarten students in Hong Kong and 128 kindergarten and grade 1 students in the United ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2002 Sep-Oct in Journal: Child Dev (Language : eng)

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1. Child Dev. 2002 Sep-Oct;73(5):1392-407

Cross-cultural similarities in the predictors of reading acquisition.

McBride-Chang C, Kail RV

Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT. cmcbride@psy.cuhk.edu.hk

Measures of Chinese character/English word recognition, phonological awareness, speeded naming, visual-spatial skill, and processing speed were administered to 190 kindergarten students in Hong Kong and 128 kindergarten and grade 1 students in the United States. Across groups, the strongest predictor of reading itself was phonological awareness; visual processing did not predict reading. For both groups, speed of processing strongly predicted speeded naming, visual processing, and phonological awareness. Despite diversities of culture, language, and orthography to be learned, models of early reading development were remarkably similar across cultures and first and second language orthographies.

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First Name	LastName	Initials
Catherine	McBride-Chang	C
Robert V	Kail	RV

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT. cmcbride@psy.cuhk.edu.hk

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