Tong Xiuhong, McBride Catherine
Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2016 Dec;45(6):1265-1285. doi: 10.1007/s10936-015-9401-3.
This research aimed to explore the relation between syntactic awareness and writing composition in 129 Hong Kong Chinese children. These children were from a ten-year longitudinal project. At each year, a number of measures were administered. The 129 children's data of nonverbal reasoning at age 4, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge at age 8, reading comprehension at age 12 and syntactic awareness and writing composition skills at ages 11 and 12 were included in this study. Syntactic awareness was longitudinally and uniquely predictive of Chinese children's writing composition, and children's performance in early writing composition was uniquely associated with their later syntactic skills, even when controlling for the contributions from age, nonverbal and verbal abilities, phonological awareness, and morphological awareness. The relationship between syntactic awareness and writing composition was mediated by children's performance in reading comprehension. These findings may suggest a reciprocal relation between syntactic awareness and writing composition, and this association may vary with ability in reading comprehension in Chinese children.
本研究旨在探究129名中国香港儿童的句法意识与写作之间的关系。这些儿童来自一个为期十年的纵向研究项目。每年都会进行多项测评。本研究纳入了这129名儿童在4岁时的非言语推理、语音意识、形态意识、8岁时的词汇知识、12岁时的阅读理解以及11岁和12岁时的句法意识与写作技能的数据。句法意识对中国儿童的写作具有纵向且独特的预测作用，即使在控制了年龄、非言语和言语能力、语音意识及形态意识的影响后，儿童早期写作表现仍与他们后期的句法技能存在独特关联。句法意识与写作之间的关系由儿童的阅读理解表现所介导。这些发现可能表明句法意识与写作之间存在相互关系，且这种关联可能因中国儿童阅读理解能力的不同而有所差异。
