Rapid naming speed and Chinese character recognition

Chen Huei Liao; George K. Georgiou; Rauno Parrila

doi:10.1007/s11145-007-9071-0

Rapid naming speed and Chinese character recognition

Chen Huei Liao, George K. Georgiou, Rauno Parrila^*

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Abstract

We examined the relationship between rapid naming speed (RAN) and Chinese character recognition accuracy and fluency. Sixty-three grade 2 and 54 grade 4 Taiwanese children were administered four RAN tasks (colors, digits, Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hao, characters), and two character recognition tasks. RAN tasks accounted for more reading variance in grade 4 than in grade 2, and graphological RAN tasks accounted for more reading variance than RAN Colors. After controlling for age, nonverbal intelligence, phonological sensitivity, short-term memory, and orthographic processing, RAN tasks were significant predictors of character recognition fluency in grade 2, and of both accuracy and fluency in grade 4.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	231-253
Number of pages	23
Journal	Reading and Writing
Volume	21
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-007-9071-0
Publication status	Published - Apr 2008
Externally published	Yes

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character recognition
Chinese reading
rapid naming

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