This is a continuation of my post yesterday. LINK
Here are the paragraphs highlighted in red in yesterday’s post.
As Maggie pointed out, if you cannot achieve the best grades, you are cast out.
Further, students who performed poorly in Pinyin reading tended to perform poorly in future reading comprehension tests.
Previous evidence showed that poor readers in higher grades (e.g. Grade 4) suffer more from Pinyin reading difficulties than normal readers (Yin and Weekes, 2003; Ding et al., 2015).
The Pinyin phonetic symbols are continuously presented alongside Chinese characters in textbooks until Grade 3 and are provided only when new characters are introduced.
