Readings on Text-Level Literacy Development among CFL Learners “Read-On” 2014

Automaticity: Character Knowledge and Sentence-level Skills and Reading Comprehension

Carver, Ronald P. 1992. “Reading Rate: Theory, Research, and Practical Implications.” Journal of Reading, Vol.d 36, No. 2, pp. 84-95.

Everson, Michael and Chuanren Ke. 1997. An inquiry into the reading strategies of intermediate and advanced learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 32.1. 1-20.

Shen, Helen 2005, Linguistic complexity and beginning level L2 Chinese reading. JCLTA 40.1.1-27.

Xu, Yi, Li-Yun Chang, Juan Zhang, and Charles A. Perfetti. 2013. “Reading, Writing, and Animation in Character Learning in Chinese as a Foreign Language,” Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 46, Issue 3, pp. 423-444.

Shen, Helen, and Xin Jiang, 2013. Character Reading Fluency, Word Segmentation Accuracy, and Reading Comprehension in L2 Chinese. Readings in a Foreign Language 25.1.1-25.

Hsu, Sheng-Hsiung and Kuo-Chen Huang, 2000,Effects of word spacing on reading Chinese text from a video display terminal. Perceptual and Motor Skills,90.1.81-92.

The role of Oral Fluency and Audio-Assistance in reading comprehension:

Everson, Michael, 1998. Word Recognition among Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language: Investigating the Relationship between Naming and Knowing. The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 82, No. 2. (Summer, 1998), pp. 194-204.

Yu Zhenyou and Nancy Pine 2006. Strategies for enhancing Chinese literacy in Chinese Preschools.  National Reading Conference, Los Angeles, pp. 1-15.  The authors found that the stronger the spoken language skills of the preschool CFL learners, the better their reading comprehension.  

Wu, Yongan. 2012. "Using external text vocalization to enhance reading development among beginning level Chinese learners." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 47.1.1-22.

Higher level and lower level reading strategies
Lee-Thompson, Li-chun, 2008. Learning strategies applied by American learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Foreign Language Annals 41.4. 702-721.

Challenges of Using Authentic Texts
Zhang, Yongfang. 2012. “Integrating Authentic Written Texts into Beginning Chinese Reading Instruction,” Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (JCLTA), 47 (1), 43-60.