The role of format familiarity and word frequency in Chinese reading [PDF]
For Chinese readers, reading from left to right is the norm, while reading from right to left is unfamiliar. This study comprises two experiments investigating how format familiarity and word frequency affect reading by Chinese people.
Mingjing Chen, Jiamei Lu
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The influence of cognitive ability in Chinese reading comprehension: can working memory updating change Chinese primary school students’ reading comprehension performance? [PDF]
With the development of educational cognitive neuroscience, language instruction is no longer perceived as mechanical teaching and learning. Individual cognitive proficiency has been found to play a crucial role in language acquisition, particularly in ...
Jiacheng Gao +6 more
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Reading depends on writing, in Chinese [PDF]
Language development entails four fundamental and interactive abilities: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Over the past four decades, a large body of evidence has indicated that reading acquisition is strongly associated with a child's listening skills, particularly the child's sensitivity to phonological structures of spoken language ...
John A Spinks +2 more
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ReCO: A Large Scale Chinese Reading Comprehension Dataset on Opinion [PDF]
This paper presents the ReCO, a human-curated Chinese Reading Comprehension dataset on Opinion. The questions in ReCO are opinion based queries issued to commercial search engine.
Bingning Wang +4 more
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The role of format familiarity and semantic transparency in Chinese reading: evidence from eye movements [PDF]
Unlike alphabetic language, Chinese is an ideographic language that does not contain spaces between words. Chinese readers must develop unique segmentation strategies for word recognition and reading comprehension.
Mingjing Chen +3 more
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A transposed-word effect in Chinese reading [PDF]
Studies using a grammaticality decision task suggest surprising flexibility in the processing of the relative order of words in sentences when reading alphabetic scripts like French. In these studies, participants made rapid grammaticality decisions for ungrammatical stimuli created by transposing two adjacent words in either a grammatical or an ...
Zhiwei Liu +3 more
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Contributions of Demographics, Language Learning Experience, and Cognitive Control to Chinese Reading Comprehension [PDF]
The study investigates whether learners’ demographics (e.g., age, education, and intelligence-IQ), language learning experience, and cognitive control predict Chinese (L2) reading comprehension in young adults.
Zhilong Xie +6 more
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Prior research has mostly focused on either basic language or basic cognitive precursors of reading development, but relatively little is known about their relative importance for reading, especially for Chinese beginning readers.
Xiujie Yang, Peng Peng, Xiangzhi Meng
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Visual requirement for Chinese reading with normal vision. [PDF]
Reading performance has been considered as an effective functional endpoint for low vision. Contrary to many extensive studies for reading performance in English, there are few systematic studies for Chinese reading.
Wang CX, Lin N, Guo YX.
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Prediction of Chinese Reading Fluency by Verbal and Non-verbal Visual Attention Span Measures. [PDF]
This study explored (1) the relationship between verbal and non-verbal visual attention span measures and (2) the relationship between visual attention span and reading fluency in traditional Chinese, among 101 university students in Hong Kong.
Chan KS, Yeung PS.
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