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{"title":"Immediate effect of dialogic reading on interactive quality of book sharing among Chinese preschool mother–child dyads","authors":"Jing Zhao, Huilin Luo, Yongyan Zhou, Lixing Zhong, Jialin Lai","doi":"10.1177/25138502211029042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502211029042","url":null,"abstract":"Shared book reading is often used as an educational tool to promote the development of children’s early language and literacy skills. This study aimed to describe and compare the linguistic features of parent–child interactions during two shared book-reading sessions among 45 children (aged 4–6 years old) and their mothers. The dyads were divided into 2 groups: the intervention group (n = 25), and the control group (n = 20). In the first reading session, mothers read with their children the way they were most comfortable with and as they would usually do at home. Before the second reading session, we provided a 30-minute intervention on strategies of dialogic reading to the intervention group. Both readings were video-recorded. Mothers completed home literacy environment questionnaires. The results showed that even for mothers who were initially very skillful at reading with their children, this immediate intervention promoted a number of aspects of interactivity between mothers and their children, namely, the number of utterances, completion, open-ended, closed and labeling questions, and type token ratio by mothers, the number of utterances and initiated talk by children, and extra-textual talk and total number of turns by both mother and child. Mothers who received the intervention demonstrated more flexibility and more discursive styles, even though the intervention was short, and the time for them to practice was minimal.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"7 1","pages":"173 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87542960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The development of lexical semantics for Mandarin-speaking children in China: An exploratory study based on the East China Normal University Vocabulary Test","authors":"Yibin Zhang, Xiyu Dai, Jing Zhou","doi":"10.1177/25138502211025645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502211025645","url":null,"abstract":"Through the compilation and research of the East China Normal University Vocabulary Test, this study explored the development of receptive and expressive language abilities of 58 children in the 2–3-year-old age group and 36 children in the 4–5-year-old age group. Results found that the children’s score of receptive vocabulary is higher than the score of expressive vocabulary, while there is a significant correlation between receptive vocabulary and expressive vocabulary. Moreover, children in the group of 2–3-year-olds had significantly lower scores than children in the group of 4–5-years-olds in both receptive and expressive vocabulary. Further analysis points out the earliest and most common word class of children is nouns, followed by verbs. Among the verbs, active verbs are the first to be acquired. Classifiers are the last acquired vocabulary by Chinese children. The exploration of phonetic errors reflects that children of 2–3 years old tend to misunderstand words by the similar sounds in words, but as their age increases, the number of phonetic errors decreases. Moreover, the results also indicate that biological and specific things are the two semantic categories learned by children. With cognition developing with age, the number of the words in different semantic categories that children acquired expands.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"13 1","pages":"205 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80884636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editor’s Word","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/25138502211042693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502211042693","url":null,"abstract":"This is a commemorative publication, because it was produced, modified and perfected during the special period of COVID-19. All the authors have gone through the special writing process to gather under the banner of children’s reading and literacy in the Chinese context. Early reading and literacy are critical for helping children to become good readers. Revolving around the topic, this issue contains five papers on the development and education of early reading and literacy in Chinese young children. The first paper focuses on young children’s development of character reading and knowledge. It indicated that young children are able to recognize and read a number of characters before formally learning to read. They first recognize the shape of the Chinese characters, and then gradually learn to analyze the internal structure. Picture book reading is always an effective way to promote the development of children’s reading and writing. The second paper examines the effectiveness of a dialogic reading intervention on the interactive quality of mother–child book reading. The findings prove that dialogic mother–child sharing reading is conducive to the improvement of Chinese children’s reading ability. The third paper investigates the association of teachers’ shared book reading strategies and vocabulary development in children from the mountain village kindergartens in remote and poor areas of China. It shows that teachers’ use of textual strategies is a strong predictor of children’s language skills. The fourth paper explores the links between early reading literacy (ERL) and narrative skills in young children. It shows that children initially focused on pictures and then gradually transferred to print during reading, and children’s reading engagement, behavior and comprehension affect their narrative construction and linguistic development. The above papers reveal the specific characteristics of children’s early literacy and reading in Chinese cultural contexts and the factors to facilitate the development. The assessment and evaluation of child language development is helpful for us to have a deep understanding of children’s early literacy and reading. Therefore, the last paper reports on the ECNUVT project, which aims to the development of a vocabulary test in the Chinese context. The test examines Chinese children’s receptive and expressive vocabulary development. It is expected that the research will bring operational tools to the evaluation of Chinese children’s language development. I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to the editorial committee for providing a special issue to publish these research works. Early reading and literacy have attracted increasing attention in China in the recent years. However, more research is required to explore the ways in which we promote children’s early reading and literacy. I hope this issue will be provocative to stimulate our thinking on this topic.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"155 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88432553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The development of Chinese character reading and knowledge in young children","authors":"Li Zhang, Jing Zhou, Simin Cao","doi":"10.1177/25138502211025644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502211025644","url":null,"abstract":"Early reading and literacy are critical for helping children to become good readers, and character reading and knowledge are important aspects. However, few studies have investigated this issue. By drawing on 127 children between 4 and 6 years of age from five Level 1 kindergartens in Shanghai, this study examined the development of Chinese character reading and knowledge in young children. Character reading was assessed using the revised Chinese Communicative Development Inventory. Children’s knowledge of Chinese characters was administered through three tasks, namely stroke-pattern recognition, visual memorization and component detection, and component positioning. Results indicated that children acquired some characters before formally learning to read and write. Both character reading and knowledge developed rapidly with age. Further, children’s knowledge of Chinese characters was closely associated with their character reading. Findings suggest that children’s interest and knowledge of characters should be fostered during the early years to prepare them to be successful readers.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"157 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89622318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translation and annotation of the travel notes of a 33 mi 21 Cave written by He Xiudong Dongba","authors":"L. Gan","doi":"10.1177/2513850221926712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2513850221926712","url":null,"abstract":"a33mi21 Cave 阿明洞 as the holy land of the Dongba religion is located in Baidi 白地, Sanba 三坝, Shangri-la, Yunnan province. Li Lincan, a grandmaster in the study of Dongba characters and the deputy director of the Taipei Palace Museum, paid homage to the a33mi21 Cave in 1942 and wrote an inscription. In 2005, his son Li Zaizhong, following in his father’s footsteps, paid a formal visit there again, and He Xiudong Dongba from Tacheng 塔城, traveling with him, recorded the pilgrimage journey in Dongba characters and translated it into Chinese, which is the first travelogue published in the Naxi language and has considerable research value. This paper has a verbatim translation and annotation of the travelogue and conducts preliminary research from the perspectives of the author and the age, the paper and the line, the frequency and number of words and text structure, the word relationships, the variants and transformation of the words, lexical features, and so forth.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"41 1","pages":"99 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77463945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing media, script styles and literary forms: Reasons behind the development of the writing system during the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern dynasties and its significance","authors":"Kehe Zang","doi":"10.1177/25138502211018789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502211018789","url":null,"abstract":"The graph zhi 纸 in the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern dynasties is of great significance and profound influence. The writing system during this period experienced a rapid development, leading to various script styles that met the demand of all kinds of literary forms and occasions. The development of script style is more directly related to the development of literary forms, especially written literature. Besides the development in the regularization of the writing system, the full preparation of script styles results mainly from material and social factors. Material factors refer to the change of writing media, namely the fact that paper became daily writing material during the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern dynasties, and social factors are the accumulation of family education and the social atmosphere of advocating calligraphy. The literature of the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern dynasties has its own track of development and its particular literary forms and genres. The consideration of the development of script style and the transformation of writing media during this period will help us discover some internal connection.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"87 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74618816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A comparative study of children’s Chinese character textbooks in Korea and China, with a focus on Yu Hap","authors":"Jeong Yeon Sil, Jang Eun Young, Park Heung Soo","doi":"10.1177/2513850221970281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2513850221970281","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines why and how Chinese characters spread into Korea. It subsequently conducts a comparative analysis of Korean and Chinese children’s textbooks with a focus on Yu Hap from the perspective of the acceptance and acculturation of Chinese characters. It also explores how commonly used the characters in Yu Hap are, and the text’s learning value as one of Korea’s children’s textbooks. Yu Hap is very significant as the first written language textbook published in Korea. A comparative analysis of the characters used in four children’s books published in Korea found that the characters in Yu Hap are very common, and the text has a high learning value. Approximately 50% of the characters in San Bai Qian and Yu Hap are the same, showing that both China and Korea had similar perceptions of the characters in common use. A very significant proportion of characters overlap in Basic Chinese Character for Educational Use, List of Common Words in Modern Chinese, and Yu Hap; this supports the idea that the same characters have continued to be used from ancient times to the present day.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"64 1","pages":"145 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80342450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A comparative study on the formation of Sinoxenic person nouns in Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese","authors":"Lee, Jiyoung","doi":"10.1177/2513850221984548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2513850221984548","url":null,"abstract":"This study attempts to sketch out how Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese (hereafter K, C, J, and V, respectively) have produced Sinoxenic personal nouns. The formation of Sinoxenic personal noun falls into one of three types: (1) with an affix attached to the original word; (2) semantic expansion; (3) expansion to figurative meanings. One observes all three types throughout KCJV; however, specific patterns differ slightly between Vietnamese and the other three languages. The differences between Vietnamese and the other three in Sinoxenic formation result from differences in geographical distances and frequencies of linguistic exchanges. Meanings of Sinoxenic words stayed similar among Korea, China, and Japan, due to frequent human and literary exchanges, which did not occur between Vietnam and the other three countries.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"53 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91223916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editor’s Word","authors":"Y. Ha","doi":"10.1177/25138502211004093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25138502211004093","url":null,"abstract":"The civilization of East Asia has grown based on Chinese characters. Among the earliest writing systems invented by mankind, Chinese character is the only one still in use in the 21st century retaining its original appearance. For this reason, Chinese characters themselves are objects in the study of human civilization, whose trajectory of development will play a decisive role in identifying the characteristics of East Asian civilization. They originated in China and expanded to neighboring East Asian nations such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, with numerous variations and new characters added over time. Even though the same characters and vocabulary have been used in East Asia, they have different pronunciations by country and differences in meaning. Changes in form are also observed. The comparative, diachronic, and synchronic studies of Chinese characters, vocabulary, and their variations accumulate cross-cultural resources, including their differences and similarities, and identify the creative forms of Chinese characters across countries. Furthermore, it is possible to identify the peculiar characteristics of the Hanja Civilization in East Asia in comparison with the Western alphabetic writing systems. This issue contains seven papers on the variations of Chinese characters and vocabulary in Korea and East Asian nations: Prof. Woong-chul Shin’s study of vocabulary related to “postal systems”; Prof. Jeong-a Jo’s research on the usage of the classifier “Ben (本)”; Prof. Hyun-suk Kwak’s analysis of “Pufferfish (鰒)” and related words; and Prof. Ji-Young Lee’s research on the mechanism for forming nouns. All of them are cross-cultural studies of Chinese characters from a comparative perspective. In addition, Prof. Guk-jo Jeon’s paper “A New Perspective on Hanja: Based upon the Multidialectical Analysis of the Four Ways of Writing (四體)” and Prof. Hyoun-Joo Shim’s “A Study of Cognitive Function of Chinese Characters Based on Semiotics of Writing” are new attempts to view new perspectives in the pursuit of future possibilities of Chinese characters. Moreover, Prof. Kyoo-kap Lee’s study on the restoration of The Stone Avatamsaka Sutra (華嚴石經), the first Buddhist stone script in East Asia, will enable the comparison of Buddhist scriptures, another foundation of East Asian civilization, in East Asia. The seven authors in this issue are full-time or adjunct professors from the Humanities Korea Plus (HK+) Hanja Civilization Research Project Group, Center for the Study of Chinese characters at Kyungsung University (CSCCK), Korea. I would like to express my special gratitude to the editorial committee for providing a special issue to publish these research articles. I hope that this project will develop beyond Korea as an international study, and beyond East Asia as part of world civilization research.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"10 1","pages":"1 - 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80433625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A comparative study of children’s Chinese character textbooks in Korea and China, with a focus on Yu Hap","authors":"Yeon‑sil Jeong, Eun-Young Jang, Heung-soo Park","doi":"10.1177/2513850220970281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2513850220970281","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines why and how Chinese characters spread into Korea. It subsequently conducts a comparative analysis of Korean and Chinese children’s textbooks with a focus on Yu Hap from the perspective of the acceptance and acculturation of Chinese characters. It also explores how commonly used the characters in Yu Hap are, and the text’s learning value as one of Korea’s children’s textbooks. Yu Hap is very significant as the first written language textbook published in Korea. A comparative analysis of the characters used in four children’s books published in Korea found that the characters in Yu Hap are very common, and the text has a high learning value. Approximately 50% of the characters in San Bai Qian and Yu Hap are the same, showing that both China and Korea had similar perceptions of the characters in common use. A very significant proportion of characters overlap in Basic Chinese Character for Educational Use, List of Common Words in Modern Chinese, and Yu Hap; this supports the idea that the same characters have continued to be used from ancient times to the present day.","PeriodicalId":36639,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Writing Systems","volume":"190 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79522363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}