Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
Cogn Process. 2024 Aug;25(3):443-455. doi: 10.1007/s10339-024-01184-2. Epub 2024 Mar 25.
The present study investigated how phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming (hereafter, RAN), simultaneously contributed to Chinese reading and arithmetic fluency. Specifically, we proposed a new hypothesized mechanism that processing speed would mediate the relations of RAN with Chinese reading and arithmetic fluency. One hundred and forty-five Chinese children at the fifth grade were administered with a battery of measures, including three phonological processing measures, character reading, and whole number computation, as well as nonverbal IQ, and vocabulary knowledge. Path analyses revealed that phonological awareness and RAN were uniquely related to character reading and arithmetic fluency, while phonological memory was not significantly correlated to either character reading or arithmetic fluency, after controlling for age, nonverbal IQ, and vocabulary knowledge. Further analysis indicated that processing speed demonstrated a mediating effect on the importance of RAN in character reading, rather than in arithmetic fluency. Results underscore the potential importance of phonological awareness and RAN in character reading and arithmetic fluency, and the mediating role of processing speed in RAN to promote Chinese character reading fluency.
本研究调查了语音意识和快速自动命名（以下简称 RAN）如何同时对中文阅读和算术流畅性产生影响。具体而言，我们提出了一个新的假设机制，即加工速度将调节 RAN 与中文阅读和算术流畅性的关系。145 名五年级的中国儿童接受了一系列测试，包括三种语音处理测试、汉字阅读和整数运算，以及非言语智商和词汇知识。路径分析显示，在控制年龄、非言语智商和词汇知识后，语音意识和 RAN 与汉字阅读和算术流畅性具有独特的相关性，而语音记忆与汉字阅读或算术流畅性没有显著相关性。进一步的分析表明，在 RAN 对汉字阅读流畅性的重要性方面，加工速度表现出中介作用，而不是在算术流畅性方面。研究结果强调了语音意识和 RAN 在汉字阅读和算术流畅性中的潜在重要性，以及加工速度在 RAN 促进汉字阅读流畅性方面的中介作用。
