The Link between a Set of Tangram-Based Tasks and Chinese and English Reading and Related Skills among Chinese Kindergarteners

Autor/inn/en	Wong, Simpson W. L.; Cheng, Rebecca Wing-yi; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Chung, Sandrine Man-Chi
Titel	The Link between a Set of Tangram-Based Tasks and Chinese and English Reading and Related Skills among Chinese Kindergarteners
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 5 (2019) 1, (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wong, Simpson W. L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
Schlagwörter	Chinese; English (Second Language); Emergent Literacy; Preschool Children; Educational Games; Reading Skills; Language Skills; Visual Perception; Word Recognition; Foreign Countries; Teaching Methods; Check Lists; Child Behavior; Intelligence Tests; Hong Kong; Child Behavior Checklist; Raven Progressive Matrices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? China; Chinesen; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Frühleseunterricht; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Educational game; Lernspiel; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Worterkennung; Ausland; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Checkliste; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Hongkong
Abstract	Learning to read two scripts at a young age is a demanding task. This study aims to develop games for building fundamental code-related emergent literacy skills among biscriptal preschoolers. We developed five games and tested them on a sample of 102 Chinese kindergarteners. The participants were aged 4 to 5 years and were learning English as a second language. The children's reading skills were measured with a battery of literacy tests as well as estimated by their teachers using a literacy-related behavior checklist. Correlational analysis revealed that the performances of the children in the tangram games were significantly correlated with teachers' ratings and children's Raven's IQ. Further regression analysis confirmed that the tangram hand-copying game predicted unique variances for visual-orthographic skills and word identification abilities in Chinese and English. This study provides valuable evidence regarding the application of tangram games for assessing code-related emergent literacy skills in the visual domain. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01