Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po, Hong Kong.
Dyslexia. 2013 Feb;19(1):11-36. doi: 10.1002/dys.1448.
This study investigated the relative contribution of syntactic awareness to Chinese reading among Chinese-speaking adolescent readers with and without dyslexia. A total of 78 junior high school students in Hong Kong, 26 dyslexic adolescent readers, 26 average adolescent readers of the same age (chronological age control group) and 26 younger readers matched with the same reading level (reading-level group) participated and were administered measures of IQ, syntactic awareness, morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, working memory, word reading, and reading comprehension. Results showed that dyslexic readers scored significantly lower than chronological age but similarly to reading level control groups in most measures, especially in the areas of syntactic skills. Analyses of individual data also revealed that over half of the dyslexic readers exhibited certain aspects of deficits in syntactic skills. In regression analyses, syntactic skills were the strongest predictors of ability in word reading and reading comprehension measures. This study highlights the uniquely important correlates of syntactic skills in Chinese reading acquisition and impairment.
本研究调查了句法意识对有和没有阅读障碍的华裔青少年读者中文阅读的相对贡献。共有 78 名香港初中生、26 名阅读障碍青少年读者、26 名同龄普通青少年读者（年龄控制组）和 26 名阅读水平匹配的年轻读者（阅读水平组）参加了测试，并接受了智商、句法意识、形态意识、词汇知识、工作记忆、单词阅读和阅读理解等方面的测试。结果表明，阅读障碍者在大多数测试中得分明显低于年龄组，但与阅读水平对照组相似，尤其是在句法技能方面。对个体数据的分析还表明，超过一半的阅读障碍者在句法技能方面表现出某些方面的缺陷。回归分析显示，句法技能是单词阅读和阅读理解能力的最强预测因素。本研究强调了句法技能在中文阅读习得和障碍中的独特重要性。
