Wai Ting Siok|Chun Yin Liu
Differential impacts of different keyboard inputting methods on reading and writing skills
University of Hong Kong|University of Hong Kong
abstract nowadays typewriting become important mode written communication report typewriting may hinder chinese childrens reading development sparked substantial concern whether typing electronic devices would increase rate reading disorders wherein children used pronunciationbased input system associates alphabet letters phonemes standard chinese putonghua may conflict traditional visuomotorbased learning processes written chinese orthographicbased input methods require good awareness orthographic structure characters used different outcomes might observed study examined impact participants experience different typewriting methods literacy abilities fluent chineseenglish bilingual readers found orthographicbased typewriting measures correlated positively chinese reading measures whereas pronunciationbased typewriting measures correlate chinese reading measures correlated positively english reading spelling performance orthographicbased typewriters also performed better pronunciationbased typewriters chinese reading dictation age typewriting skills preuniversity language ability statistically controlled findings based two contrastive writing systems suggest typewriting methods tally learning principles writing system used promote preserve literacy skills digital era