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Article: Genetic and environmental overlap between Chinese and English reading-related skills in Chinese children
Title | Genetic and environmental overlap between Chinese and English reading-related skills in Chinese children |
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Keywords | Behavioral genetics Chinese learners of English Cognitive-linguistic skills Second language reading acquisition Twins |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | American Psychological Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.apa.org/journals/dev.html |
Citation | Developmental Psychology, 2014, v. 50 n. 11, p. 2539-2548 How to Cite? |
Abstract | 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 1st and 2nd languages have distinct or overlapping genetic and environmental origins. A sample of 279 Chinese twin pairs with a mean age of 6 years was tested. Univariate twin analyses were used to identify sources of individual variations in reading abilities and related cognitive-linguistic skills in Chinese and English, respectively. They were used to show both similar and distinctive patterns in these skills across Chinese and English. Bivariate Cholesky decomposition analyses indicated genetic overlaps between all parallel Chinese and English variables, as well as shared environmental overlaps in receptive vocabulary and phonological awareness. The phenotypic correlations between 1st and 2nd language skills previously observed in cross-linguistic studies could be explained by the shared genetic and environmental influences found in this twin study. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved). |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/204908 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.631 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wong, SWL | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chow, BWY | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ho, CSH | - |
dc.contributor.author | Waye, MMY | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bishop, DVM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-20T01:04:40Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-20T01:04:40Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Developmental Psychology, 2014, v. 50 n. 11, p. 2539-2548 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0012-1649 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/204908 | - |
dc.description.abstract | 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 1st and 2nd languages have distinct or overlapping genetic and environmental origins. A sample of 279 Chinese twin pairs with a mean age of 6 years was tested. Univariate twin analyses were used to identify sources of individual variations in reading abilities and related cognitive-linguistic skills in Chinese and English, respectively. They were used to show both similar and distinctive patterns in these skills across Chinese and English. Bivariate Cholesky decomposition analyses indicated genetic overlaps between all parallel Chinese and English variables, as well as shared environmental overlaps in receptive vocabulary and phonological awareness. The phenotypic correlations between 1st and 2nd language skills previously observed in cross-linguistic studies could be explained by the shared genetic and environmental influences found in this twin study. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved). | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | American Psychological Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.apa.org/journals/dev.html | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Developmental Psychology | - |
dc.rights | Developmental Psychology. Copyright © American Psychological Association. | - |
dc.subject | Behavioral genetics | - |
dc.subject | Chinese learners of English | - |
dc.subject | Cognitive-linguistic skills | - |
dc.subject | Second language reading acquisition | - |
dc.subject | Twins | - |
dc.title | Genetic and environmental overlap between Chinese and English reading-related skills in Chinese children | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Ho, CSH: shhoc@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Ho, CSH=rp00631 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1037/a0037836 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 25221842 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC4221000 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84925613502 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 237097 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 50 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 11 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 2539 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 2548 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000344354700011 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0012-1649 | - |