“Daddy, can I buy candies?” “Mommy, I want to buy toys!” Buying and selling represent everyday behaviors that everyone experiences, and...

Have you ever travelled to Japan, walking on the street, looking at various store banners? Did you feel a sense of familiarity? Was it...

One of the best gifts parents can give to their children is leading them into the world of reading. Early reading benefits children’s...

Generally speaking, Chinese is widely considered one of the hardest languages to learn and to teach. What about children who are ethnic...

Word recognition depends on an integration of phonology (sound), orthography (print) and semantics (meaning). Both Chinese and English...

One common aspect of Chinese character learning is the relatively high prevalence of homographs. Homographs refer to a single character...

Due to the fact that children’s literacy development is crucial to their academic achievements, many parents send their children to...

I would like to tell you something about dysgraphia, a difficulty that hindered me for years. Many people do not have a good...

Conventionally, many believe that reading numerous books is the first step to be a good writer.  Sometimes, parents even deprive their...

Above: Copybook can be used to improve children's Chinese writing skill while games in morphological awareness can be used to improve...

An interesting question, but one that is potentially politically sensitive, is the following: Which is easier (or harder) to learn?...

Above: Pinyin forces children to consider small speech segments as represented by letters and rhymes (e.g., fan4--f (onset) -an (rhyme))...

Above: Some children might copy words one stroke at a time in attempt to finish the copying task more quickly. However, this does not...

Top: comparing the shape of a word to a semantically related picture could be helpful for Chinese learners who have just started...