Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World Building Stra
This book investigates inherent, structural differences in the Chinese and English writing systems which predispose learners from childhood to develop specific literacy-learning strategies, which can impair later efforts at learning foreign language liter
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Clay Williams
Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World Building Strategies Across Scripts
Springer Texts in Education
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Clay Williams
Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World Building Strategies Across Scripts
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Clay Williams Akita International University Akita Japan
ISSN 2366-7672 Springer Texts in Education ISBN 978-981-10-0641-8 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0643-2
ISSN 2366-7980
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ISBN 978-981-10-0643-2
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To my lovely wife, Bonnie, and my kids. Coming home to you is what makes all the hard work worthwhile.
Acknowledgments
I would like to express my appreciation to my employer, Akita International University, for their support and encouragement of this project. I would like to offer special thanks to Dr. Rachael Ruegg and the other members of English for Academic Purposes department who took the time and effort to proofread the chapters of this manuscript, and who made so many worthwhile suggestions which were incorporated into the final version. I am in your debt! I would also like to thank the University of Arizona, and especially Dr. Tom Bever, who set me out on this research path so many years ago. It took a long time to get to this point, but ultimately, the first steps on this journey only happened as a result of your ideas and encouragement. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those at Springer Science +Business Media for patiently shepherding me through this process. Special thanks to Mr. Lawrence Liu for taking a chance on a young academic! Additionally, I would like to thank all the reviewers, whose names I don’t know, bu
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