Ann. of Dyslexia DOI 10.1007/s11881-015-0097-8
Beyond phonological and morphological processing: pure copying as a marker of dyslexia in Chinese but not poor reading of English Sylvia Chanda Kalindi & Catherine McBride & Xiuhong Tong & Natalie Lok Yee Wong & Kien Hoa Kevin Chung & Chia-Ying Lee
Received: 19 September 2014 / Accepted: 3 March 2015 # The International Dyslexia Association 2015
Abstract To examine cognitive correlates of dyslexia in Chinese and reading difficulties in English as a foreign language, a total of 14 Chinese dyslexic children (DG), 16 poor readers of English (PE), and 17 poor readers of both Chinese and English (PB) were compared to a control sample (C) of 17 children, drawn from a statistically representative sample of 177 second graders. Children were tested on pure copying of unfamiliar stimuli, rapid automatized naming (RAN), phoneme deletion, syllable deletion, and morphological awareness. With children’s ages and Raven’s nonverbal reasoning statistically controlled, the PE and PB groups were significantly lower than the C group on phoneme deletion and RAN tasks, while the DG performed significantly better than the PB group on the RAN task. The copying task S. C. Kalindi : X. Tong : N. L. Y. Wong Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sino Building 326A, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong S. C. Kalindi e-mail:
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