Visual Chunking Skills of Hong Kong Children Export

@article{citeulike:354456, abstract = {Abstract: This study investigated the development of visual chunking skills in the processing of Chinese characters among Hong Kong pupils. One-hundred-seventy-nine primary school students from first, second and fourth grades were administered a character copying task. Children as young as 6 years of age were aware of character units and were able to apply visual chunking strategies when processing characters. Children in higher grades performed better than those in lower grades on every character type, and the types of errors they made revealed that their chunking level was higher than that of younger children. Differences between ability groups emerged in second grade and vanished in fourth grade, suggesting that children with a lower reading ability are slower to develop advanced chunking skills.}, author = {Pak, Ada and Cheng-Lai, Alice and Tso, Ivy and Shu, Hua and Li, Wenling and Anderson, Richard}, citeulike-article-id = {354456}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11145-005-6575-3}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/read/2005/00000018/00000005/00006575}, comment = {Is it visual or is it motor? It's probably both, but character copying involves practiced motor schema. I'd be convinced that this is visual chunking rather than motor skills if they could show that (a) children did not follow a particular stroke order when copying or (b) they show similar patterns with non-character figures.}, doi = {10.1007/s11145-005-6575-3}, issn = {0922-4777}, journal = {Reading and Writing}, keywords = {chinese, perception, reading, reading\_acquisition, spelling}, month = {July}, number = {5}, pages = {437--454}, posted-at = {2005-10-25 14:40:53}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers}, title = {Visual Chunking Skills of Hong Kong Children}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11145-005-6575-3}, volume = {18}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:354456 L3 - citeulike-article-id:354456 N2 - Abstract: This study investigated the development of visual chunking skills in the processing of Chinese characters among Hong Kong pupils. One-hundred-seventy-nine primary school students from first, second and fourth grades were administered a character copying task. Children as young as 6 years of age were aware of character units and were able to apply visual chunking strategies when processing characters. Children in higher grades performed better than those in lower grades on every character type, and the types of errors they made revealed that their chunking level was higher than that of younger children. Differences between ability groups emerged in second grade and vanished in fourth grade, suggesting that children with a lower reading ability are slower to develop advanced chunking skills. IS - 5 JF - Reading and Writing SN - 0922-4777 EP - 454 TI - Visual Chunking Skills of Hong Kong Children PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers VL - 18 SP - 437 KW - chinese KW - perception KW - reading KW - reading_acquisition KW - spelling N1 - Is it visual or is it motor? It's probably both, but character copying involves practiced motor schema. I'd be convinced that this is visual chunking rather than motor skills if they could show that (a) children did not follow a particular stroke order when copying or (b) they show similar patterns with non-character figures. AU - Pak, Ada AU - Cheng-Lai, Alice AU - Tso, Ivy AU - Shu, Hua AU - Li, Wenling AU - Anderson, Richard PY - 2005/07// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11145-005-6575-3 ER -