Reading in Asian Languages: Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

by Meiko Iventosch, Yetta M. Goodman, Shaomei Wang

Book Overview

Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction of meaning which they show is fully applicable to character-based reading.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415894778
• ISBN13: 9780415894777
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"