SSHR-Thematic Grant Type A

Getting Read-y: Optimizing Early Chinese Instruction amidst Language Shift

Host Institution

NTU

18 April 2019

Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Alice Chan Hiu Dan

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Grant details

Name of Recipient	Associate Professor Alice Chan Hiu Dan School of Humanities, NTU
Project Title	Getting Read-y: Optimizing Early Chinese Instruction amidst Language Shift
Project Status	Ongoing
Year Awarded	2019
Type of Grant	Social Science Research Thematic Grant
Funding Type	A
Theme	The Future of Society

This project seeks to investigate early literacy among young Chinese readers in Singapore and aims to (a) develop ways to identify poor readers at an early age to allow for intervention; and (b) develop and evaluate support programs for these readers through a series of cross-sectional and longitudinal experiments.