Helping Chinese Students in the Literacy Transfer Process.

Osborne-Wilson, Colette; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ381818

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1989

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Helping Chinese Students in the Literacy Transfer Process.

Osborne-Wilson, Colette; And Others

Journal of Reading, v32 n4 p330-36 Jan 1989

Aims to heighten teacher awareness of the semantic, syntactic, and phoneme-grapheme transfer problems that Chinese students face. Provides teaching suggestions involving phonology, vocabulary, syntax, and morphology. Urges reading teachers to use the visual modality to help make the transfer to the English script system more successful. (RS)

Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Reading Instruction, Second Language Learning, Secondary Education, Semantics, Syntax, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids, Vocabulary

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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