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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 literacy if the foreign language script varies significantly from the native language script.

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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 literacy if the foreign language script varies significantly from the native language script.
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introductions to Literacy.- Chapter 2 The Chinese Language.- Chapter 3 Chinese Elementary Education.- Chapter 4 English Education in the Chinese Classroom.- Chapter 5 Chinese on the Brain.- Chapter 6 Default Reading Strategies: English and Chinese.- Chapter 7 Reading against the stream: Using the wrong strategies to acquire L2 literacy.- Chapter 8 A better way: Teaching English from the ground up.