Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2021 Oct;210:105185. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105185. Epub 2021 Jun 1.
In this study, we examined the effects of phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness (MA), two character properties (family size [i.e., the number of words that contain the character] and frequency), and the interactions between the metalinguistic awareness (i.e., PA and MA) and the character properties on character reading in early Chinese readers. In total, 206 kindergarten children from China (118 from Mainland China and 88 from Hong Kong) were tracked from the second year of kindergarten to the third year. The linear mixed-effects models revealed significant main effects of metalinguistic awareness and character properties and significant interaction effects between these two, especially for the children from Mainland China. Specifically, the interaction effects indicated that early Chinese readers were able to use metalinguistic awareness more when reading the characters with more favorable properties (i.e., large family sizes and high frequencies). The results suggest a synergistic relationship between metalinguistic awareness and character properties for character learning in early Chinese readers.
在这项研究中，我们考察了语音意识（PA）、形态意识（MA）、两个字符属性（家族大小[即包含该字符的单词数量]和频率）以及元语言意识（即 PA 和 MA）与字符属性之间的相互作用对早期中国读者的字符阅读的影响。共有 206 名来自中国的幼儿园儿童（中国大陆 118 名，香港 88 名）从幼儿园第二年到第三年被跟踪。线性混合效应模型显示，元语言意识和字符属性有显著的主效应，而且这两者之间有显著的相互作用效应，特别是对于来自中国大陆的儿童。具体而言，交互作用表明，早期中国读者在阅读具有更有利属性（即大家族大小和高频）的字符时，能够更多地使用元语言意识。结果表明，元语言意识和字符属性之间对于早期中国读者的字符学习存在协同关系。
