Visual Perceptual Abilities of Chinese-Speaking and English-Speaking Children
| Autor: | Frederick K. S. Leung, Mun Yee Lai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
Male Visual perception media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests White People Developmental psychology Chinese version Asian People Perceptual learning Perception Humans Language media_common Australia Mean age Cross-cultural studies Sensory Systems Test (assessment) Child Preschool Visual Perception Hong Kong Female Written language Psychology Psychomotor Performance Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Perceptual and Motor Skills. 114:433-445 |
| ISSN: | 1558-688X 0031-5125 |
| Popis: | This paper reports an investigation of Chinese-speaking and English-speaking children's general visual perceptual abilities. The Developmental Test of Visual Perception was administered to 41 native Chinese-speaking children of mean age 5 yr. 4 mo. in Hong Kong and 35 English-speaking children of mean age 5 yr. 2 mo. in Melbourne. Of interest were the two interrelated components of visual perceptual abilities, namely, motor-reduced visual perceptual and visual-motor integration perceptual abilities, which require either verbal or motoric responses in completing visual tasks. Chinese-speaking children significantly outperformed the English-speaking children on general visual perceptual abilities. When comparing the results of each of the two different components, the Chinese-speaking students' performance on visual-motor integration was far better than that of their counterparts ( ES = 2.70), while the two groups of students performed similarly on motor-reduced visual perceptual abilities. Cultural factors such as written language format may be contributing to the enhanced performance of Chinese-speaking children's visual-motor integration abilities, but there may be validity questions in the Chinese version. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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