Early Oral Language Markers of Poor Reading Performance in Hong Kong Chinese Children
This study investigated the extent to which language skills at ages 2 to 4 years could discriminate Hong Kong Chinese poor from adequate readers at age 7. Selected were 41 poor readers (age M = 87.6 months) and 41 adequate readers (age M = 88.3 months). The two groups were matched on age, parents’ e...
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| author | Liu, P. McBride-Chang, C. Wong, A. Tardif, T. Stokes, Stephanie Fletcher, P. Shu, H. |
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| description | This study investigated the extent to which language skills at ages 2 to 4 years could discriminate Hong Kong Chinese poor from adequate readers at age 7. Selected were 41 poor readers (age M = 87.6 months) and 41 adequate readers (age M = 88.3 months). The two groups were matched on age, parents’ education levels, and nonverbal intelligence. The following language tasks were tested at different ages: vocabulary checklist and Cantonese articulation test at age 2; nonword repetition, Cantonese articulation, and receptive grammar at age 3; and nonword repetition, receptive grammar, sentence imitation, and story comprehension at age 4. Significant differences between the poor and adequate readers were found in the age 2 vocabulary knowledge, age 3 Cantonese articulation, and age 4 receptive grammar skill, sentence imitation, and story comprehension. Among these measures, sentence imitation showed the greatest power in discriminating poor and adequate readers. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-331162017-09-13T16:07:33Z Early Oral Language Markers of Poor Reading Performance in Hong Kong Chinese Children Liu, P. McBride-Chang, C. Wong, A. Tardif, T. Stokes, Stephanie Fletcher, P. Shu, H. sentence imitation articulation vocabulary knowledge phonological processing grammar This study investigated the extent to which language skills at ages 2 to 4 years could discriminate Hong Kong Chinese poor from adequate readers at age 7. Selected were 41 poor readers (age M = 87.6 months) and 41 adequate readers (age M = 88.3 months). The two groups were matched on age, parents’ education levels, and nonverbal intelligence. The following language tasks were tested at different ages: vocabulary checklist and Cantonese articulation test at age 2; nonword repetition, Cantonese articulation, and receptive grammar at age 3; and nonword repetition, receptive grammar, sentence imitation, and story comprehension at age 4. Significant differences between the poor and adequate readers were found in the age 2 vocabulary knowledge, age 3 Cantonese articulation, and age 4 receptive grammar skill, sentence imitation, and story comprehension. Among these measures, sentence imitation showed the greatest power in discriminating poor and adequate readers. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33116 10.1177/0022219410369084 Sage Publications, Inc. restricted |
| spellingShingle | sentence imitation articulation vocabulary knowledge phonological processing grammar Liu, P. McBride-Chang, C. Wong, A. Tardif, T. Stokes, Stephanie Fletcher, P. Shu, H. Early Oral Language Markers of Poor Reading Performance in Hong Kong Chinese Children |
| title | Early Oral Language Markers of Poor Reading Performance in Hong Kong Chinese Children |
| title_full | Early Oral Language Markers of Poor Reading Performance in Hong Kong Chinese Children |
| title_fullStr | Early Oral Language Markers of Poor Reading Performance in Hong Kong Chinese Children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Early Oral Language Markers of Poor Reading Performance in Hong Kong Chinese Children |
| title_short | Early Oral Language Markers of Poor Reading Performance in Hong Kong Chinese Children |
| title_sort | early oral language markers of poor reading performance in hong kong chinese children |
| topic | sentence imitation articulation vocabulary knowledge phonological processing grammar |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33116 |