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Implications for Chinese Literacy Learning and Instruction in Chinese OWI Programs: A Proposal

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This chapter first discusses the limitation of the studies included in this volume; subsequently, based on the findings from the preceding chapters, discusses the implications for vocabulary learning and instruction, the role of cross-linguistic transfer, and the importance of morphological awareness, lexical inference, and depth of vocabulary knowledge in content area learning in Chinese. This chapter also provides a detailed example of morphological instruction of academic vocabulary in Chinese.

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Lü, C. (2019). Implications for Chinese Literacy Learning and Instruction in Chinese OWI Programs: A Proposal. In: Chinese Literacy Learning in an Immersion Program. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04987-4_9

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