Professor Chan Lily Associate Professor CertEd (NCE), BEd (W Australia Coll) DipChildDev&Pre-sch/PriEd, MA, PhD (London) Telephone: 26961024 e-mail: lilychan@cuhk.edu.hk
Served as Teacher in Yu Chun Keung Memorial College No. 2, Lecturer in Macau University, and Associate Professor in the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Teaching areas include child development, classroom communication, early literacy, and children’s literature...
Child development, early language and literacy acquisition, and preschool curriculum
Chan, L. and Louie, L. (1992). Developmental Trend of Chinese Preschool Children in Drawing and Writing. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 6(2), 93-99 Chan, L. and Nunes, T. (1998). Children’s Understanding of the Formal and Functional Characteristics of Written Chinese. Applied Psycholinguistics, 19, 115-131. Chan, L. and Nunes, T. (2001). Explicit Teaching and Implicit Learning of Chinese Characters. In L. Tolchinsky (Ed.) Developmental Aspects to Learning to Write. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers: Chan, L. (2003). Young Children’s Early Writing Experiences. Hong Kong Journal of Early Childhood, 2 (1), 35-39 Chan, L. and Wang, L.(2003). Linguistic Awareness in Learning to Read Chinese - A Comparative Study of Beijing and Hong Kong Children. In C. McBride-Chang & H-C. Chen (Eds.), Reading Development in Chinese Children. Westport (CT): Greenwood Publishers. Chan, L. K. S. and Chan, L. (2003). Reforming Early Childhood Education in Hong Kong: Meeting the Challenges. In L.K. S. Chan & E. Mellor (Eds.) International Developments in Early Childhood Services. NY: Peter Lang Publishers. Nabucu, M. E. and Chan, L. (2003). Recent Changes in the Pre-school Education and Care System in Portugal. In L.K. S. Chan & E. Mellor (Eds.) International Developments in Early Childhood Services. NY: Peter Lang Publishers. Chan, L. & Kwok, E. (2004). Preschool Children’s Understanding of the Ideographic Structure of Chinese Characters. Journal of Basic Education. 13 (2). 23-38 Pretzlik, U. and Chan, L. (2004). Children’s Self-Perception as Reader. In T. Nunes and P. Bryant (Eds.), The Handbook of Literacy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Chan, L., Cheng, Z. J. & Chan, L. F. (submitted). Writing development in Chinese Preschoolers. Journal of Early Years. Chan, L., Nunes, T., & Wong, R. (submitted). How young children learn Chinese characters. Reading Research Quarterly.