Search results for author:"Yin Kum Law"
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The role of teachers’ cognitive support in motivating young Hong Kong Chinese children to read and enhancing reading comprehension
Yin-kum Law
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 27, No. 1 (January 2011) pp. 73–84
This study analysed the reading lessons of 35 Hong Kong Grade 2 Chinese teachers to investigate whether their instructional practices were related to their students’ motivation and reading comprehension scores. The reading lessons of the teachers...
Language: English
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Expertise Reversal Effect in Reading Chinese Texts with Added Causal Words
Slava Kalyuga; Yin Kum Law; Chee Ha Lee
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 41, No. 3 (May 2013) pp. 481–497
The study investigated the effectiveness of causal words embedded in Chinese texts to explicitly indicate causal links between the described events. Primary school students with different levels of reading expertise participated in the experiment...