Hua Shu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3837276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hua Shu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hua |
| FAMILY NAME | Shu |
| SIGNATURE | SHU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7694-564X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Associations Between Home Literacy Environment, Reading Interest, Independent Reading and Reading Skills Among Primary School Children: A Two‐Site Study in China
Background This study examined the relationship between home literacy environment (HLE), reading interest, independent reading and reading skills in primary school children and whether their relationship is similar across different socioeconomic contexts. Methods Data were collected from two socioeconomically distinct sites in China: Beijing (representing high per capita income [PCI], N = 227; 52% female) and Tianshui (representing low PCI, N = 2…
The relation between family factors and children’s vocabulary knowledge: A comparative study of rural and urban preschoolers in China
Although family factors are considered important for children’s language acquisition, the evidence comes primarily from affluent societies. Thus, this study aimed to examine the relations between family factors (family’s socioeconomic status [SES], home literacy activities, access to print resources, and parental beliefs) and children’s vocabulary knowledge in both urban and rural settings in China. Data from 366 children (urban group: 109, 4.85 …
Initial phoneme awareness of 4–6 years old Chinese children and the predictive effect on character reading ability
Are parental influences on emergent literacy and word reading skills the same across socioeconomic contexts? A multisite study in China
Visualizing road connectivity under traffic influence: A CiteSpace-based method
The connectivity of roads under the influence of traffic is determined by the topological connections established by the road network and the transport connections formed by moving vehicles between two roads simultaneously. A thorough examination of this connectivity is crucial for comprehending traffic patterns and providing guidance to address transportation issues such as traffic congestion. However, existing methods ignore the intuitive repre…
Finding and Evaluating Community Structures in Spatial Networks
Community detection can reveal unknown spatial structures embedded in spatial networks. Current spatial community detection methods are mostly modularity-based. However, due to the lack of appropriate spatial networks serving as a benchmark, the accuracy and effectiveness of these methods have not been tested sufficiently so far. This study first introduced a spatial autoregressive and gravity model united method (SARGM) to simulate benchmark spa…
Cross-cultural generalizability of expectancy-value theory in reading: A multilevel analysis across 80 societies
A new flow-based centrality method for identifying statistically significant centers
Quantifying the centrality of places and identifying centers constitute the basis for assessing the urban spatial structure, which is essential for sustainable spatial planning. Both the existence and intensity of linkages contribute to the centrality of places. However, few centrality measures consider both aspects simultaneously. Additionally, the identification of centers often relies on specified minimum thresholds, which is subjective and ar…
Quantifying human mobility resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study of Beijing, China
Recent Advances in Chinese Developmental Dyslexia
Chinese developmental dyslexia (DD) research provides important insights into the language-universal and language-specific mechanisms underlying dyslexia. In this article, we review recent advances in Chinese DD. Converging behavioral evidence suggests that, while phonological and rapid automatized naming deficits are language universal, orthographic and morphological deficits are specific to the linguistic properties of Chinese. At the neural le…
Revealing spatiotemporal matching patterns between traffic flux and road resources using big geodata - A case study of Beijing
Accessing public transportation service coverage by walking accessibility to public transportation under flow buffering
Cross-language contributions of rapid automatized naming to reading accuracy and fluency in young adults: Evidence From Eight Languages Representing Different Writing Systems
I-index for quantifying an urban location's irreplaceability
How did human dwelling and working intensity change over different stages of Covid-19 in Beijing
Fractal dimension of job-housing flows: A comparison between Beijing and Shenzhen
What Influences Customer Flows in Shopping Malls: Perspective from Indoor Positioning Data
Offline stores are seriously challenged by online shops. To attract more customers to compete with online shops, the patterns of customer flows and their influence factors are important knowledge. To address this issue, we collected indoor positioning data of 534,641 and 59,160 customers in two shopping malls (i.e., Dayuecheng (DYC) in Beijing and Longhu (LH) in Chongqing, China) for one week, respectively. The temporal patterns of the customer f…
Inferring gender and age of customers in shopping malls via indoor positioning data
Customer profiles that include gender and age information are important to businesses and can be used to promote sales and provide personalized services. This information is gathered in e-commerce by analyzing customer visit records in virtual web space. However, such practice is difficult in brick-and-mortar businesses because the data that can be utilized to infer customer profiles are limited in physical spaces. In this paper, we attempt to in…
Do pinyin and character recognition help each other grow
Vocabulary growth rate from preschool to school‐age years is reflected in the connectivity of the arcuate fasciculus in 14‐year‐old children
The acquisition of language involves the functional specialization of several cortical regions. Connectivity between these brain regions may also change with the development of language. Various studies have demonstrated that the arcuate fasciculus was essential for language function. Vocabulary learning is one of the most important skills in language acquisition. In the present longitudinal study, we explored the influence of vocabulary developm…
Different Measures of Print Exposure Predict Different Aspects of Vocabulary
The authors examined whether different measures of print exposure assess the same underlying concept and how these different measures relate to vocabulary breadth and depth. One hundred forty‐seven students attending the third year of kindergarten in Jining, China, were assessed on nonverbal IQ , vocabulary breadth and depth, and their knowledge of book titles. Parents also participated in the study by filling out a questionnaire on the frequency…
The influence of early linguistic skills and family factors on literacy acquisition in Chinese children: Follow-up from age 3 to age 11
Reading Skills, Acquisition of: Cultural, Environmental, and Developmental Impediments
Developmental changes in the early child lexicon in Mandarin Chinese
In this paper we report a large-scale developmental study of early productive vocabulary acquisition by 928 Chinese-speaking children aged between 1;0 and 2;6, using the Early Vocabulary Inventory for Mandarin Chinese (Hao, Shu, Xing & Li, 2008). The results show that: (i) social words, especially words for people, are the predominant type of words in Chinese-speaking children's earliest productive vocabulary; (ii) overall, Chinese-speaking child…
The Effect of Immediate and Lifetime Experience of Reading Horizontal and Vertical Texts on Chinese Speakers’ Temporal Orientation
The present study examined participants’ performance on a temporal judgment task while holding language constant but varying their lifetime and immediate reading experience of horizontal and vertical texts. Chinese participants from Taiwan and China were randomly assigned to a reading task involving horizontally or vertically arranged texts. A temporal judgment task (spatial-temporal association of response codes or starc ) followed the reading t…
Role of Radical Awareness in the Character and Word Acquisition of Chinese Children
S A total of 292 Chinese children in the first, third, or fifth grade participated in one of two experiments investigating radical awareness ; that is, the insight that a component of Chinese characters, called the radical, usually provides information about the character's meaning. The technique used in the experiments was to present two‐character words familiar from oral language but which the children had not seen before in print. One of the c…
Phonological skills and vocabulary knowledge mediate socioeconomic status effects in predicting reading outcomes for Chinese children
This study examined the relations among socioeconomic status (SES), early phonological processing, vocabulary, and reading in 262 children from diverse SES backgrounds followed from ages 4 to 9 in Beijing, China. SES contributed to variations in phonological skills and vocabulary in children's early development. Nonetheless, early phonological and vocabulary abilities exerted equally strong and independent mediation of the SES effects on children…
Analysis of wildlife tourism experiences with endangered species: An exploratory study of encounters with giant pandas in Chengdu, China
Incidental Learning of Word Meanings While Reading: A Chinese and American Cross-Cultural Study
Hua Shu, Richard C. Anderson, Houcan Zhang, Incidental Learning of Word Meanings While Reading: A Chinese and American Cross-Cultural Study, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb. - Mar., 1995), pp. 76-95
Revealing spatiotemporal matching patterns between traffic flux and road resources using big geodata - A case study of Beijing
Fractal dimension of job-housing flows: A comparison between Beijing and Shenzhen
The Stability of Literacy-Related Cognitive Contributions to Chinese Character Naming and Reading Fluency
Recent Advances in Chinese Developmental Dyslexia
Chinese developmental dyslexia (DD) research provides important insights into the language-universal and language-specific mechanisms underlying dyslexia. In this article, we review recent advances in Chinese DD. Converging behavioral evidence suggests that, while phonological and rapid automatized naming deficits are language universal, orthographic and morphological deficits are specific to the linguistic properties of Chinese. At the neural le…
Accessing public transportation service coverage by walking accessibility to public transportation under flow buffering
Cross-language contributions of rapid automatized naming to reading accuracy and fluency in young adults: Evidence From Eight Languages Representing Different Writing Systems
Do pinyin and character recognition help each other grow
Different Measures of Print Exposure Predict Different Aspects of Vocabulary
The authors examined whether different measures of print exposure assess the same underlying concept and how these different measures relate to vocabulary breadth and depth. One hundred forty‐seven students attending the third year of kindergarten in Jining, China, were assessed on nonverbal IQ , vocabulary breadth and depth, and their knowledge of book titles. Parents also participated in the study by filling out a questionnaire on the frequency…
The Effect of Immediate and Lifetime Experience of Reading Horizontal and Vertical Texts on Chinese Speakers’ Temporal Orientation
The present study examined participants’ performance on a temporal judgment task while holding language constant but varying their lifetime and immediate reading experience of horizontal and vertical texts. Chinese participants from Taiwan and China were randomly assigned to a reading task involving horizontally or vertically arranged texts. A temporal judgment task (spatial-temporal association of response codes or starc ) followed the reading t…
Women’s Role in Sustaining Villages and Rural Tourism in China
Incidental Learning of Word Meanings While Reading: A Chinese and American Cross-Cultural Study
Hua Shu, Richard C. Anderson, Houcan Zhang, Incidental Learning of Word Meanings While Reading: A Chinese and American Cross-Cultural Study, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb. - Mar., 1995), pp. 76-95
Role of Radical Awareness in the Character and Word Acquisition of Chinese Children
S A total of 292 Chinese children in the first, third, or fifth grade participated in one of two experiments investigating radical awareness ; that is, the insight that a component of Chinese characters, called the radical, usually provides information about the character's meaning. The technique used in the experiments was to present two‐character words familiar from oral language but which the children had not seen before in print. One of the c…
Morphological awareness uniquely predicts young children's Chinese character recognition.
Two unique measures of morphological awareness, along with other reading-related tasks, were orally administered to 100 kindergarten and 100 2nd-grade Hong Kong Chinese children. These morphological awareness tasks were developed on the basis of 2 special properties of Chinese: (a) the relatively large number of homophones requires speakers to distinguish unique meanings in syllables with identical sounds, and (b) complex vocabulary words are oft…
Properties of School Chinese: Implications for Learning to Read
The properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters explicitly taught in Chinese elementary schools were systematically investigated, including types of characters, visual complexity, spatial structure, phonetic regularity and consistency, semantic transparency, independent and bound components, and phonetic and semantic families. Among the findings are that the visual complexity, phonetic regularity, and semantic transparency of the Chinese character…
Changing models across cultures: Associations of phonological awareness and morphological structure awareness with vocabulary and word recognition in second graders from Beijing, Hong Kong, Korea, and…
The role of morphological awareness in children's vocabulary acquisition in English
Tasks of speeded naming, phonological awareness, word identification, nonsense word repetition, and vocabulary, along with two measures of morphological awareness (morphological structure awareness and morpheme identification), were administered to 115 kindergartners and 105 second graders. In the combined sample, 48% of the variance in vocabulary knowledge was predicted by the phonological processing and reading variables. Morphological structur…
Understanding chinese developmental dyslexia: Morphological awareness as a core cognitive construct.
Tasks representing 9 cognitive constructs of potential importance to understanding Chinese reading development and impairment were administered to 75 children with dyslexia and 77 age-matched children without reading difficulties in 5th and 6th grade. Logistic regression analyses revealed that dyslexic readers were best distinguished from age-matched controls with tasks of morphological awareness, speeded number naming, and vocabulary skill; perf…
Phonological awareness in young Chinese children
Two studies explored the nature of phonological awareness (PA) in Chinese. In Study 1, involving 146 children, awareness of phoneme onset did not differ from chance levels at ages 3–5 years in preschool but increased to 70% correct in first grade, when children first received phonological coding (Pinyin) instruction. Similarly, tone awareness was at better than chance levels from second year kindergarten (age 4), but increased strongly and signif…
What's in a word? Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in three languages
Understanding how words are created is potentially a key component to being able to learn and understand new vocabulary words. However, research on morphological awareness is relatively rare. In this study, over 660 preschool-aged children from three language groups (Cantonese, Mandarin, and Korean speakers) in which compounding morphology is highly prevalent were tested on their abilities to manipulate familiar morphemes to create novel compound…
Morphological Awareness, Orthographic Knowledge, and Spelling Errors: Keys to Understanding Early Chinese Literacy Acquisition
This 1-year longitudinal study examined the extent to which morphological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and phonological awareness, along with speeded naming, uniquely explained word recognition, dictation (i.e., spelling), and reading comprehension among 171 young Hong Kong Chinese children. With age and vocabulary knowledge statistically controlled, both morphological awareness and orthographic knowledge were uniquely associated with all t…
Categorical Perception of VOT and Lexical Tones in Chinese and the Developmental Course: Categorical Perception of VOT and Lexical Tones in Chinese and the Developmental Course
摘要: 范畴性是言语知觉的一个显著特征,长期以来一直受到研究者的普遍关注。但汉语不同语音特征的范畴性知觉特点及其发展模式迄今为止还很少有研究涉及。本研究利用语音合成的方法分别改变辅音的送气/不送气特征和声调的基频曲线,生成语音刺激连续体,采用范畴性知觉的经典研究范式探讨了汉语正常成人被试嗓音启动时间(Voice onset time,VOT)和声调范畴性知觉的特点及不同年龄儿童的发展模式。研究结果表明:(1)成人被试对VOT和声调的知觉是范畴性的;(2)对于汉语声调特征,6岁儿童已经具有类似成人的范畴性知觉能力;而在VOT这一维度上,范畴知觉能力随着年龄发展不断精细化,但7岁儿童也尚未达到成年人的敏感程度,说明汉语VOT和声调这两个不同的语音特征经历了不同的发展模式
What is in the naming? A 5-year longitudinal study of early rapid naming and phonological sensitivity in relation to subsequent reading skills in both native Chinese and English as a second language.
Among 262 Chinese children, syllable awareness and rapid automatized naming (RAN) at age 5 years and invented spelling of Pinyin at age 6 years independently predicted subsequent Chinese character recognition and English word reading at ages 8 years and 10 years, even with initial Chinese character reading ability statistically controlled. In addition, reading fluency in Chinese was predicted by RAN but not by phonological sensitivity, whereas Ch…
Chinese children's character recognition: Visuo‐orthographic, phonological processing and morphological skills
Tasks tapping visual skills, orthographic knowledge, phonological awareness, speeded naming, morphological awareness and Chinese character recognition were administered to 184 kindergarteners and 273 primary school students from Beijing. Regression analyses indicated that only syllable deletion, morphological construction and speeded number naming were unique correlates of Chinese character recognition in kindergarteners. Among primary school chi…
The processing of lexical tones by young Chinese children
The current study examined five- and seven-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's processing of lexical tones in relation to speech segments by varying onset and rime in an oddity task (onset±rime±). Results showed that children experienced more difficulty in lexical tone oddity judgment when rimes differed across monosyllables (e.g. onset+rime−) than when onsets differed (e.g. onset−rime+). This finding suggests that vowels interfere more than co…
Women’s Role in Sustaining Villages and Rural Tourism in China
Phonological skills and vocabulary knowledge mediate socioeconomic status effects in predicting reading outcomes for Chinese children
This study examined the relations among socioeconomic status (SES), early phonological processing, vocabulary, and reading in 262 children from diverse SES backgrounds followed from ages 4 to 9 in Beijing, China. SES contributed to variations in phonological skills and vocabulary in children's early development. Nonetheless, early phonological and vocabulary abilities exerted equally strong and independent mediation of the SES effects on children…
The Stability of Literacy-Related Cognitive Contributions to Chinese Character Naming and Reading Fluency
Analysis of wildlife tourism experiences with endangered species: An exploratory study of encounters with giant pandas in Chengdu, China
Reading Skills, Acquisition of: Cultural, Environmental, and Developmental Impediments
Developmental changes in the early child lexicon in Mandarin Chinese
In this paper we report a large-scale developmental study of early productive vocabulary acquisition by 928 Chinese-speaking children aged between 1;0 and 2;6, using the Early Vocabulary Inventory for Mandarin Chinese (Hao, Shu, Xing & Li, 2008). The results show that: (i) social words, especially words for people, are the predominant type of words in Chinese-speaking children's earliest productive vocabulary; (ii) overall, Chinese-speaking child…
The Effect of Immediate and Lifetime Experience of Reading Horizontal and Vertical Texts on Chinese Speakers’ Temporal Orientation
The present study examined participants’ performance on a temporal judgment task while holding language constant but varying their lifetime and immediate reading experience of horizontal and vertical texts. Chinese participants from Taiwan and China were randomly assigned to a reading task involving horizontally or vertically arranged texts. A temporal judgment task (spatial-temporal association of response codes or starc ) followed the reading t…
The influence of early linguistic skills and family factors on literacy acquisition in Chinese children: Follow-up from age 3 to age 11
Vocabulary growth rate from preschool to school‐age years is reflected in the connectivity of the arcuate fasciculus in 14‐year‐old children
The acquisition of language involves the functional specialization of several cortical regions. Connectivity between these brain regions may also change with the development of language. Various studies have demonstrated that the arcuate fasciculus was essential for language function. Vocabulary learning is one of the most important skills in language acquisition. In the present longitudinal study, we explored the influence of vocabulary developm…
Different Measures of Print Exposure Predict Different Aspects of Vocabulary
The authors examined whether different measures of print exposure assess the same underlying concept and how these different measures relate to vocabulary breadth and depth. One hundred forty‐seven students attending the third year of kindergarten in Jining, China, were assessed on nonverbal IQ , vocabulary breadth and depth, and their knowledge of book titles. Parents also participated in the study by filling out a questionnaire on the frequency…
What Influences Customer Flows in Shopping Malls: Perspective from Indoor Positioning Data
Offline stores are seriously challenged by online shops. To attract more customers to compete with online shops, the patterns of customer flows and their influence factors are important knowledge. To address this issue, we collected indoor positioning data of 534,641 and 59,160 customers in two shopping malls (i.e., Dayuecheng (DYC) in Beijing and Longhu (LH) in Chongqing, China) for one week, respectively. The temporal patterns of the customer f…
Psychology (29 works) · Linguistics (27 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (26 works) · Literacy (14 works) · Cognitive psychology (13 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Reading (process) (13 works) · Phonological awareness (12 works)