Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World
Building Strategies Across Scripts
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
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
Autor*in
Clay Williams
Themen in »Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World«
Chinese English classrooms Chinese learners of English Chinese literacy education Chinese speaking world Cross-linguistics English as a Foreign Language English education for Chinese English learning in china Teaching English Reading The Chinese writing system