Selected Readings on Chinese Literacy 2013

I. Higher and Lower Processing and Reading Proficiency in Chinese
Shen, Helen 2005, Linguistic complexity and beginning level L2 Chinese reading. JCLTA 40.1.1-27.

II. Character Recognition and Text Reading Proficiency
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.

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.

Lee-Thompson, Li-chun, 2008. learning strategies applied by American learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Foreign Language Annals 41.4. 702-721.

III. Identifying Word Boundaries
1L readers
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.

CFL learners compared with 1L readers
Shen, Helen, 2008. An Analysis of Word Decision Strategies among Learners of Chinese. Foreign Language Annals. 41.3.501-525.

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.

IV. Phonological vs. Spatial Processing and Reading Proficiency
1L Learners:
Tan, Li Hai, John Spinks, Guinevere Eden, Charles Perfetti, and Wai Ting Siok, 2004.  ‘Reading depends on writing, in Chinese.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. vol. 102, no. 24. 8781-8785.

Pine, Nancy, Huang Ping’an, and Huang Rensong. 2003. Decoding Strategies used by Chinese primary School Children. Journal of Literacy Research 35.2. 777-812.

CFL Learners:
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.

V. Recommendations for best practices in reading instruction
Everson, Michael, 2011, Best Practices in teaching logographic and non-Roman writing systems to L2 learners.  Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 31, 249-274. Cambridge University Press. 

Everson, Michael, 2009. Literacy Development in Chinese as a Foreign Language.  Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: Theories and Applications, pp. 97-111.

Everson, Michael 2008.  Issues in Chinese Literacy Development and Implications for Teacher Development.