Dual Coding Theory and Chinese: Recall of Concrete and Abstract Sentences in Chinese-English Bilinguals

Theories of reading have seldom been examined across orthographies. In the present study, Dual Coding Theory (DCT), a general theory of cognition applied to literacy, was applied to Chinese sentences to investigate the effects of language concreteness and abstractness on immediate recall. Forty Chin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Tsuei-Fen
Other Authors: Sadoski, Mark
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8322