Thesis Database

Year: 2014 - 2015 2nd term

Programme: MA in Psy

Supervisor: Catherine McBride

Student name: Leung Pui Man

Thesis title:

Predictors of poor and average reading comprehension in Hong Kong Chinese children

Keywords: reading comprehension, Chinese children, word reading, linguistic variables

Participants: 141 Hong Kong students of Grade 9 (57 boys, 84 girls, mean age= 121.55 months, SD=3.42)

Measures: Rapid automatized naming, Hong Kong test of specific learning difficulties in reading and writing, Stanford-Binet intelligence scale-vocabulary subscale, Peabody picture vocabulary test-third edition

Measures abr: RAN, HKT-SpLD, PPVT-III

Abstract: abstract/2014-2015 MA/LeungPuiMan_abstract.pdf

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