Table 1.

Characteristics of the two groups of participants.

	Reliabilities (Cronbach's α)	Experimental group (N = 28)		Control group (N = 28)		T
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Ages		99.82	12.77	97.21	12.01	0.25
IQ		9.45	1.13	9.52	1.06	0.44
Character reading (0–200)	0.81	47.96	4.76	47.11	5.04	0.66
Onset awareness (0–20)	0.67	8.86	2.61	7.54	2.91	1.79
Rime awareness (0–20)	0.62	9.50	2.85	9.54	2.77	−0.05
Lexical tone awareness (0–15)	0.72	4.86	1.86	4.68	1.54	0.39
Rapid naming (0–100)	0.72	30.55	4.44	30.86	4.40	1.29
Orthographic knowledge (0–34)	0.76	19.29	4.40	17.68	4.94	1.29