Blessings of Babel (Out of stock)
What Does It Mean to Learn to Read English/Chinese?
Che-kan Leong
216 x 138 mm , 42pp ISBN / ISSN : 978-962-8077-51-9
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US$2.00
This paper outlines the nature of the primary linguistic activities of listening and speaking and the secondary linguistic activities of reading and writing. There are common linguistic principles of parity, classification and segmentation in learning to read English and Chinese. The paper then provides a perspective on language learning by Chinese students in Hong Kong. The need to help children as active learners is emphasised.