VISUAL PERCEPTUAL ABILITIES OF CHINESE-SPEAKING AND ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN.

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 me...

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Publicado en:Perceptual & Motor Skills Vol. 114; no. 2; pp. 433 - 446
Autores principales: Mun Yee Lai, Koon Shing Leung, Frederick
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Apr2012
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          Mun Yee Lai
          Koon Shing Leung, Frederick
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          Charles Stuart University
          The University of Hong Kong
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        Victoria
        Hong Kong (China)
        Ethnology research
        Cultural values
        Children
        Chinese people
        Comparative studies
        Confidence intervals
        Statistical correlation
        Neuropsychological tests
        Psychology of movement
        Questionnaires
        Research
        Sensorimotor integration
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        Mathematical variables
        Visual perception
        Effect sizes (Statistics)
        Data analysis software
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          Ethnology research
          Cultural values
          Children
          Victoria
          Hong Kong (China)
          Chinese people
          Comparative studies
          Confidence intervals
          Statistical correlation
          Neuropsychological tests
          Psychology of movement
          Questionnaires
          Research
          Sensorimotor integration
          T-test (Statistics)
          Mathematical variables
          Visual perception
          Effect sizes (Statistics)
          Data analysis software
          Descriptive statistics
      ab: 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.
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