How well do phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming correlate with Chinese reading accuracy and fluency? A meta-analysis

S Song, GK Georgiou, M Su, S Hua - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Previous meta-analyses on the relationship between phonological awareness, rapid
automatized naming (RAN), and reading have been conducted primarily in English, an …

Cognitive predictors of literacy acquisition in syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji

T Inoue, GK Georgiou, N Muroya, H Maekawa… - Reading and …, 2017 - Springer
We examined the role of different cognitive skills in word reading (accuracy and fluency) and
spelling accuracy in syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. Japanese Hiragana and …

English foreign language reading and spelling diagnostic assessments informing teaching and learning of young learners

J Kahn-Horwitz, Z Goldstein - Language Testing, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In order to inform English foreign language (EFL) diagnostic assessment of literacy, this
study examined the extent to which 175 first-language Hebrew-speaking EFL young …

Examining the cross-lagged relationships between RAN and word reading in Chinese

W Wei, GK Georgiou, C Deng - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this 4-year longitudinal study was to specify the direction of the relationship
between RAN and word reading (accuracy and fluency) in Chinese. This is important in light …

Early literacy acquisition in logographic orthographies: Evidence from Chinese and Japanese

T Inoue, M Zheng, KFH Lui, C McBride… - Early Childhood Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
We examined the cognitive-linguistic predictors of early literacy development and the extent
to which they were similar or different across two logographic orthographies (Chinese and …

The role of morphological awareness in word reading skills in Japanese: A within-language cross-orthographic perspective

N Muroya, T Inoue, M Hosokawa… - Scientific Studies of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We examined the relationship between morphological awareness and word reading skills in
syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. Participants were 127 Grade 1 Japanese …

Is processing of symbols and words influenced by writing system? Evidence from Chinese, Korean, English, and Greek

A Altani, GK Georgiou, C Deng, JR Cho… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - Elsevier
We examined cross-linguistic effects in the relationship between serial and discrete versions
of digit naming and word reading. In total, 113 Mandarin-speaking Chinese children, 100 …

Do pinyin and character recognition help each other grow?

SZ Zhang, GK Georgiou, T Inoue, W Zhong… - Early Childhood Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although previous studies have shown that early pinyin knowledge predicts future character
recognition, it remains unclear if early character recognition also predicts future pinyin …

Cognitive predictors of word reading in Sinhala

M Wijaythilake, R Parrila, T Inoue, S Nag - Reading and Writing, 2019 - Springer
We examined whether akshara knowledge, phonological awareness, phonological memory,
and RAN predict variability in word and nonword reading skills in Grade 1–4 children (N …

The contribution of RAN pause time and articulation time to reading across languages: Evidence from a more representative sample of children

GK Georgiou, M Aro, CH Liao… - Scientific Studies of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We examined the relationship between rapid automatized naming (RAN) components—
articulation time and pause time—and reading fluency across languages varying in …