{"pk":36369,"title":"Literacy as Sociocultural Practice: Comparing Chinese and Korean Readers","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a study investigating the literacy practices, attitudes, and uses of two groups of subjects: Chinese (n=35) and Korean (n=26); it examines the relationship between each group’s practices, attitudes, and uses and success in reading in a second language (English). Results of the research suggest: (a) literacy attitudes, practices, and uses can be seen to vary cross-culturally; (b) that cultural group appears to be a factor in determining attitudes about reading and reading behaviors; (c) differences in attitude, practice, and use in the first language have implications for literacy behavior in the second language; and (d) that second language reading success may be related to certain first language attitudes and behaviors that seem to be characteristic of the groups under study","language":"eng","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Theme Section - Reading","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5139k9j2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Joanne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Devine","name_suffix":"","institution":"Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY","department":""},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Eskey","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2004-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/catesoljournal/article/36369/galley/27221/download/"}]}