@article{958782,
      recid = {958782},
      author = {Williams, Clay},
      title = {Teaching English reading in the Chinese-speaking world :  building strategies across scripts /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book investigates inherent, structural differences in  the Chinese and English writing systems which predispose  learners from childhood to develop specific  literacy-learning strategies, which can impair later  efforts at learning foreign language literacy if the  foreign language script varies significantly from the  native language script. It compares educational practices  and philosophies in Chinese and English-speaking  classrooms, and examines the psychological underpinnings of  these literacy learning strategies. This book presents  psychometric testing of adult reading strategy defaults and  examines case study data, revealing that Chinese students  are susceptible to misapplying Chinese character-level  processing strategies to English word identification tasks,  which decreases reading efficiency, and ultimately can lead  to learning failure. Finally, a new educational framework  is proposed for teaching beginning language-specific word  identification and literacy-learning skills to learners  whose first language script varies significantly from that  of the target language.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/958782},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0643-2},
}