ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study about Ka-ho, who is a 14-year-old Chinese adolescent and originally interviewed four years ago. In the current interview he revealed problems coping with dyslexia and his feelings about not fitting into the Hong Kong educational system, which is well-known for its pressure to achieve good grades on standardized tests. Despite the fact that Ka-ho has normal intelligence and adequate learning opportunities, he consistently faces difficulties in orthographic knowledge and morphological awareness. Chinese is best known for its visual complexity. Chinese characters have more visual information than English words. Each character is a perceptual unit that differs from thousands of others in its strokes and spatial configuration. Ka-ho prefers learning by using his body, hands and sense of touch. However, he commented that his learning style has not been properly addressed in class as teaching was confined to the "chalk-and-talk" method.
