Reading, literacy, and literacy (General)

Carver, Ronald. 1992. “Reading rate: theory, research, and practical implications,” Journal of reading 36.2.84-95.

Masoumeh Akhondi, Faramarz Aziz Malayeri, Arshad Abd Samad, “How to Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Reading Comprehension. http://www.readingrockets.org/article/how-teach-expository-text-structure-facilitate-reading-comprehension

“Bonnie J.F. Meyer, 1999. “The importance of text structure in everyday reading.”. in A. Ram and K. Moorman, eds. Understanding Language Understanding, Cambridge Press, pp. 227-252.

Sharp, Alastair, 2010. “Intercultural rhetoric and reading comprehension in a second language.” Alastair Sharp. Reading psychology 31. 472-491.

Research on Literacy Development in Chinese

Tong et al 2014. “Discourse-level reading comprehension in Chinese children: What is the role of syntactic awareness? Journal of Research in Reading, 37. S1.S48-S70.

Li Liping and Wu Xinchun. 2015. “Effects of Metalinguistic Awareness on Reading Comprehension and the mediator role of reading fluency from grades 2-4.” PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.one.0114417, pp. 1-16.

Guan C. Q., Liu Y., Chan D. H. L, Ye F., and Perfetti C. A. 2011. “Writing strengthens orthography and alphabetic-coding strengthens phonology in learning to read Chinese,” Journal of Educational Psychology, 103, 509-522.)

Bai et al. 2013. “Interword spacing effects on the acquisition of new vocabulary for readers of Chinese as a second language.” Journal of Research in Reading, Vol 36, S1, 2013, pp. S4-S17

C.K. Leong, S.K. Tse, K.Y.Loh, and K.T. Hau, 2008. “Text comprehension in Chinese children: Relative contribution of verbal working memory, Pseudoword reading, Rapid automatized naming, and onset-rime phonological segmentation.” Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008. 100.1.135-149.ß