This book refutes the common Western belief that non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese. Korean) are hard to learn or to use, and offers practical theory-based methodology for the teaching of literacy in these languages to first and second language learners.

Dedication. Acknowledgements. Foreword Jun Liu Part 1: Writing Systems in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 1. The Process of Reading in Non-Alphabetic Languages: An Introduction Ken Goodman 2. How a Morphosyllabic Writing System Works in Chinese Yueh-Nu Hung 3. Similarities and Dissimilarities in Reading Chinese and English: Goodman’s Reading Model Perspective Yueh-Nu Hung 4. Chinese Writing Reform: A Social-Cultural Perspective Shaomei Wang 5. Ideography and Borrowing in Chinese Ning Yu 6. Chinese Unconventional Characters:Characteristics, Controversial Arguments, and Pedagogical Implications Junlin Pan 7. A Successful Mixture of Alphabetic and Non-Alphabetic Writing: Chinese Characters in Korean Rodney E. Tyson 8. Orthography: Human Creativity and Adaptability Mieko Shimizu Iventosch Part 2: Studies of Reading in Chinese and Japanese 9. Making Sense in Reading Chinese: An Error Detection Study Jingguo Xu 10. Miscues and Eye Movements of Japanese Beginning Readers Daniel Ferguson, Yasuhiko Kato, and Mariko Nagahiro 11. How Readers Process Japanese Orthography with Two Different Texts Koomi Kim 12 . The Taxonomy of Chinese Reading Miscues Shaomei Wang Part 3: Implications and Applications for Instruction 13. Understanding and Facilitating Literacy Development among Chinese Speaking Young Children Lianju Lee 14. Teachers’ Reflections on Chinese Miscue Analysis: A Graduate Course in Reading Wen-Yun Lin 15. Experiencing Korean Culture and Language Through Korean Children’s Literature Yoo Kyung Sung 16. Teaching Japanese Written Language Mieko Shimizu Iventosch 17. Kamishibai Junko Sakoi. Contributors. Index