Goodrich J Marc, Lonigan Christopher J, Farver Joann M
Florida State University.
J Educ Psychol. 2013 May;105(2):414-426. doi: 10.1037/a0031780.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cross-language transfer of the emergent literacy skills of preschoolers who were Spanish-speaking language minority children in the context of an experimental intervention study. Ninety-four children were randomly assigned to either a control condition (High/Scope preschool curriculum) or to receive small-group pull-out instruction (Literacy Express Preschool Curriculum) in English or initially in Spanish and transitioning to English. We examined whether children's initial skills in one language moderated the impact of the intervention on those same skills in the other language at posttest. Results demonstrated that, for children in the English-only intervention condition, initial Spanish receptive vocabulary and elision skills moderated the impact of the intervention on English receptive vocabulary and elision skills at posttest, respectively. For children in the transitional intervention condition, initial English definitional vocabulary and elision skills moderated the impact of the intervention on Spanish definitional vocabulary and elision skills at posttest, respectively. Results for the vocabulary interactions, as well as the elision interaction for the English-only intervention group comparisons, supported the notion of transfer of specific linguistic information across languages. Results for elision interaction for the transitional intervention group comparisons supported language-independent transfer. Implications for the theory of cross-language transfer of emergent literacy skills are discussed.
本研究的目的是在一项实验性干预研究的背景下，评估那些说西班牙语的少数族裔学前儿童新兴读写技能的跨语言迁移情况。94名儿童被随机分配到一个控制组（高瞻学前课程），或者接受英语的小组抽出式教学（学前读写快车课程），或者最初接受西班牙语教学，然后过渡到英语教学。我们研究了儿童在一种语言上的初始技能是否会调节干预对后测中另一种语言相同技能的影响。结果表明，对于仅接受英语干预的儿童，初始西班牙语接受性词汇和省略技能分别调节了干预对后测中英语接受性词汇和省略技能的影响。对于接受过渡性干预的儿童，初始英语定义性词汇和省略技能分别调节了干预对后测中西班牙语定义性词汇和省略技能的影响。词汇交互作用的结果，以及仅接受英语干预组比较中的省略交互作用结果，支持了特定语言信息跨语言迁移的观点。过渡性干预组比较中的省略交互作用结果支持了与语言无关的迁移。讨论了对新兴读写技能跨语言迁移理论的启示。
