Genetic and environmental overlap between Chinese and English reading-related skills in Chinese children.
Wong Simpson W L, Chow Bonnie Wing-Yin, Ho Connie Suk-Han, +2 more·Developmental psychology
This twin study examined the relative contributions of genes and environment on 2nd language reading acquisition of Chinese-speaking children learning English. We examined whether specific skills-visual word recognition, receptive vocabulary, phonological awareness, phonological memory, and speech discrimination-in the…