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VISUAL PERCEPTUAL ABILITIES OF CHINESE-SPEAKING AND ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN.
- Source :
- Perceptual & Motor Skills; Apr2012, Vol. 114 Issue 2, p433-445, 13p, 4 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CHINESE people
COMPARATIVE studies
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests
PSYCHOLOGY of movement
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH
SENSORIMOTOR integration
T-test (Statistics)
MATHEMATICAL variables
VISUAL perception
ETHNOLOGY research
CULTURAL values
EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHILDREN
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00315125
- Volume :
- 114
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Perceptual & Motor Skills
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 79570686
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2466/10.24.27.PMS.114.2.433-445