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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Chinese children"”.
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Second language vocabulary acquisition through storybook reading for Chinese children
… ( n =50) in China, whose primary language is Chinese, who learn English as a second language. The children (aged 5 to 6) were pretested to evaluate their knowledge of general and targeted words using a researcher-designed instrument tailored to the content of three selected English stories. …
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Food for children with special reference to dietaries for Chinese children
… first special characters of Chinese food is the preponderance of cereal grain of one kind or another--rice, wheat, buckwheat, barley, millet, glutinous millet, kaoliang, corn, maize--sometimes a mixture of two or more of them.</p><p>Meat consumption is China is very …
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Using Social Cognitive Theory to Model Health Behaviors Among Chinese Children
… and regular physical activity among a group of Chinese-American children in a Southeastern Virginia urban area.</p> <p>An observational cross-sectional survey research design and snowball sampling were used. The survey employed items from the Health Behavior Questionnaire, the Youth Risk …
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The Contribution of Cognitive Flexibility and Socioeconomic Status to Arithmetic Skills in Chinese Children
… effective mathematical performance as it enables children to switch between operations and notations, transfer knowledge to novel situation, and shift between solution strategies to select the most optimal one. Despite its importance, cognitive flexibility has been underexplored, particularly in …
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Decision Making and the Adoption Process for American Families of Chinese Children: An Application of Rational Choice Theory
… parents in the US who have adopted one or more children from China. The study focuses on the motivation to adopt, decision making regarding adoption and the process in relation to rational choice theory. The interviews also inquired about their required adoption trip to China and the …
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Language Socialization of Chinese Children in the American Midwest: Learning to Write in American Preschool, Chinese Sunday School, and at Home
<p>Early literacy studies in American preschool, Chinese school and home settings have reported very different sets of beliefs and practices about writing and learning. However, few studies have explored the cultural underpinnings and the socialization role of such differing beliefs and practices …
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The Validity Of The Kinetic Family Drawing As A Measure Of Self-Concept And Parent/Child Relationship Among Chinese Children In Taiwan
… <p>Valid psychological instruments for use with Chinese children in Taiwan are scarce. The present study attempted to validate the Kinetic Family Drawing as a measure of the self in the family context as well as the perceived parent-child relationship among Chinese children in Taiwan, and to …
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Stages in Chinese Children's Reading of English Words
This study examined the developmental stages in Chinese children's reading of English words in 118 English as a second language (ESL) children from Grade 2, 4, and 6 (M age = 7:6, 10:5, and 12:5 years, respectively) from a working-class elementary school in Tian Jin, China. Six ability tests …
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Predicting Chinese Children's Reading Development From Kindergarten to Second Grade
… to have implications for how best to teach Chinese children to learn to read. It may affect the teaching methods currently used and offer parents ways to help their children to learn at home. Moreover, the results are expected to lead to a better understanding of how normal Chinese reading …
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Children's moral reasoning: influence of culture and collaborative discussion
… of culture and collaborative discussion on Chinese and American children’s moral reasoning in reflective essays that they composed about a moral and practical dilemma. In contrast to American children who frequently expressed egocentric concerns, Chinese children exhibited altruistic …
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Pretend play and its links to children's emotional experience, expression and regulation
… Emotional development is closely related to children’s mental health. Despite a close link theorised between pretend play and emotional development, empirical evidence is limited and restricted to early childhood. This study investigates how pretend play among 7- to 10-year-old Chinese …
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Parents’ peer restriction in the United States and China: A longitudinal study of early adolescents
… examined parents’ exertion of control over children’s peer relationships in the United States and China. Three times over a year, 934 American and Chinese children (M age = 12.67 years) reported on their parents’ peer restriction (i.e., efforts to limit children’s connection or time with …
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To share or not to share : a case study of six Chinese immigrant children’s sharing behaviors during social pretend play in a US preschool classroom
… theories, this dissertation investigated Chinese immigrant children’s sharing behaviors, including initiating sharing behaviors and responding to sharing requests, as well as their parents’ and teachers’ descriptions of the children’s sharing behaviors. Six Chinese immigrant children along …
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Early Childhood Bilingual Education: A Curriculum to Teach Kindergarteners in China to Develop Primary Speaking and Listening Skills in English
… of economy and industry developing rapidly, The Chinese government and society in general regard learning English as a necessary component of success (Hu, 2010). There is considerable pressure for Chinese students to learn English. However, the Chinese government does not require kindergartens to …
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The role of parents' control and autonomy support in the United States and China: beyond children's reports
… of parents’ control (i.e., intruding into children’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior) on children’s psychological functioning in the United States and China has almost exclusively relied on children’s reports. Such reports may lead to inaccurate conclusions if they do not reflect parents’ …
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Developmental stages in reading Chinese as a second language
… whether adult second language (L2) learners of Chinese go through stages when learning to read Chinese characters. A study conducted with preschoolers to 6th graders in China (Chen, 2004) had demonstrated that children whose native language (L1) is Chinese pass through three reading stages …
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Exploring the Family Context Among Children Adopted From China: Perceptions of Pre-Adoption Factors, Post-Adoption Experiences, and the Quality of Parent-Child Relationships
… 10 adoptive Canadian mothers and their adopted Chinese children (aged 9 to 11 years). Results highlight parent and child reports of mainly strong, positive relationships. Several pre-adoption experiences are examined, including institutionalization, age at the time of adoption, and parental …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… two chapters, I have studied the left-behind children issue in China. According to the latest statistics (2018 Ministry of Civil Affairs), there are 69.7 million children who are separated from their migrant worker parents and are receiving education in their respective hometowns which …
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One object behind another: A cross-cultural study of partial occlusion in children's drawings
"Young children do not typically represent in their drawings the occlusion of a farther object by a near one. According to previous studies, they frequently depict the two objects side by side, one above the other, or one transparently overlapping the other. Reasons for doing so are usually …
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Factors Affecting Episodic Memory Development
… what-where-when (WWW) representation on British children aged 6-12. Results suggest that episodic memory continues to develop during this period, with item, spatial, temporal and WWW memory all improving relatively linearly with age. These improvements are driven by both associative binding and …
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