Overview
- Compares educational practices and philosophies in Chinese and English-speaking classrooms
- Presents psychometric testing of adult reading strategy defaults in Chinese and English-speaking populations
- Defines potential word-identification problems stemming from L1 interference, common to Chinese learners of English
- Proposes a new educational framework for teaching beginning literacy skills across different scripts
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Education (SPTE)
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Book Title: Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World
Book Subtitle: Building Strategies Across Scripts
Authors: Clay Williams
Series Title: Springer Texts in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0643-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0641-8Published: 15 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0643-2Published: 07 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2366-7672
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 185
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education