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The Role of Working Memory, Transcription Skills, and Oral Language Skills in Writing Proficiency Among Taiwanese Children

Author: Wei-Lun Chung

"Little research has examined different dimensions of Chinese writing through multiple evaluative approaches, including writing quality, writing productivity, and curriculum-based measurement (CBM) writing accuracy. The study used cross-sectional and longitudinal designs to examine whether working memory, transcription, and oral language skills could predict various dimensions of Chinese writing proficiency.

Method:

Eighty-four second graders and 100 fourth graders were recruited from Taipei, Taiwan. They undertook the following tasks: working memory, Chinese character dictation, writing fluency, sentence structure, conjunctions (except for the second graders), and picture-prompted writing. The fourth graders received additional text-prompted writing tasks (i.e., a narrative essay and an expository essay) in Grade 5.

Results:

Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that (a) oral language skills were more important to Grade 2 writing quality than transcription skills, whereas the reverse was found in Grade 4 writing quality; (b) transcription skills were more important to Grade 2 CBM writing accuracy than oral language skills, whereas the reverse was found in Grade 4 CBM writing accuracy; and (c) fourth graders' working memory and transcription skills were more important to their Grade 5 narrative CBM writing accuracy than oral language skills, whereas the reverse was found in their Grade 5 expository CBM writing accuracy.

Conclusions:

The findings partially support the developmental writing model in which children's writing proficiency relies on their transcription skills more than on oral language skills at an early phase, whereas the reverse is found at a later phase. Working memory might emerge as a predictor of Grade 5 writing, and the contributions of transcription and oral language skills to Grade 5 writing proficiency differed across genres."

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2026_JSLHR-25-00511?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article

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UNWLA Hosts ‘Translation as Resistance’ Panel to Advance Ukrainian Literature on the Global Stage

"Translation is resistance. UNWLA united translators & advocates working to put Ukrainian literature on global shelves — one book, one library at a time.
May 27, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA) hosted “Translation as Resistance,” a panel discussion bringing together translators, editors, and cultural advocates to examine how Ukrainian literature moves from the page into the hands of a global readership – and what it costs to get it there. The event was co-organized with Craft Magazine, Chapter Ukraine, and Academic Studies Press.

The panel is part of UNWLA’s annual Ukraine Decolonization Month, established in May 2025 and growing in scope each year. The initiative is rooted in a conviction that Ukraine’s authentic literary and cultural tradition must be disentangled from the distorted lens of russian imperialism and made visible to the world on its own terms. A cornerstone of that effort is the UNWLA Book Club, which focuses on Ukrainian literature available in English translation. Opening these works to non-Ukrainian readers is not a secondary goal – it is the point. Every reader who discovers Ukrainian poetry, fiction, or nonfiction through these pages encounters a culture that is ancient, distinct, and alive, not a simplified version imposed by its colonizer.

The panel was grounded in two recent books that exemplify what is at stake.
“Ukrainian Sunrise” – stories from the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions from the Early 2000s” by Dr. Kateryna Zarembo dismantles the myth of a russian-speaking, russia-aligned Donbas. Drawing on four years of field research conducted up to February 2022, Zarembo documents the Ukrainian civil society that existed in Donetsk and Luhansk – activists, artists, pastors, students – a world the war has since occupied or destroyed.
“War from the Rear” by Andriy Lyubka follows the author and his volunteer team as they raised $1.5 million and delivered over 4,000 vehicles to soldiers on the front lines. It is, deliberately, a Ukrainian book with a happy ending – something nearly unheard of in wartime literature. Both authors are now serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and their books speak to the roots of Ukraine’s resilience in the face of a much larger aggressor.

Getting Ukrainian literature translated into English is only the first obstacle. Translator Tatiana Sachchinska, who translated “Ukrainian Sunrise,” faced over a dozen rejections from publishers despite the book’s rigorous scholarship. Publishers worried about market timing and whether Anglophone audiences would sustain interest – the window that opened briefly after February 2022 was already closing.

“Ukraine is a treasure trove of stories,” Sachchinska said. “It is our responsibility as translators and agents of translation to get these stories across — even when there are obstacles on the road.”...

Anna Bereznyak
Ukrainian National Women’s League of America
+1 212-533-4646"
https://www.dispatch.com/press-release/story/191854/unwla-hosts-translation-as-resistance-panel-to-advance-ukrainian-literature-on-the-global-stage/
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From www.dispatch.com - May 29, 2026 9:58 PM

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