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Jennifer Yusun Kang 《Reading and writing》2012,25(2):411-431
This study examined whether there are bilingual advantages in terms of phonological awareness (PA) for children acquiring
two phonologically and orthographically different alphabetic languages and investigated the emergent literacy factors that
explain variances in their PA, in comparison to monolingual children. The study participants comprised seventy 5- to 6-year-old
Korean-English bilingual children who had attended English-medium kindergartens for at least 2 years and fifty-six Korean
monolingual children whose age and L1 oral language proficiency were matched to the bilingual participants. They were tested
on a range of PA and emergent literacy skill measures including decoding skills in both Korean and English. The study findings
indicated that (1) the bilingual children had a bilingual advantage in PA tasks in both L1 and L2, (2) there was language
transfer in processing L1 and L2 PA for both bilingual and monolingual children, and (3) the PA of the two groups was explained
by different factors. The results are discussed in terms of language-specific L1 characteristics and the potential effects
of instructional differences in language arts. 相似文献
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Young-Suk Kim 《Reading and writing》2009,22(7):843-861
This study examined (1) the potential influence of oral language characteristics of two languages that bilingual children
acquire on their PA and (2) the relationship of PA in L1 with PA and literacy skills in L2, using data from Korean–English
bilingual children. Thirty three Korean–English bilingual children, composed of two subsamples from two different locations/bilingual
programs, participated in the study. The findings showed that the sample of bilingual children from two bilingual programs
differed in their mean performances on intrasyllabic phonological awareness in Korean (i.e., rime awareness and body awareness).
Furthermore, children’s Korean rime awareness, but not body awareness, was positively related to their phonological awareness
and literacy skills in English. Finally, these children’s phonological awareness in Korean made a positive contribution to
English decoding skills even after controlling for their English sight word reading skills. The results are discussed in light
of interlingual influence on bilingual children’s phonological awareness.
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The present study investigated relative contributions of initial status and growth rates of emergent literacy skills (i.e.,
phonological awareness, letter-name knowledge, vocabulary, and rapid serial naming) to initial status and growth rates of
conventional literacy skills (i.e., word reading, pseudoword reading, and spelling) for young Korean children. A total of
215 four-year-old children were followed for approximately 15 months. Results showed (1) consistent effects of letter-name
knowledge, phonological awareness, and rapid serial naming on conventional literacy skills, and (2) the importance of children’s
initial level in the emergent literacy skills for achieving conventional literacy skills. These results are discussed in light
of characteristics of the Korean language and writing system. 相似文献
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《Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties》2013,18(2):99-113
Children first exposed to English as a second language when they start school are at risk for poor academic outcome. They perform less well than their monolingual peers, matched for socio-economic background, at the end of primary school on measures of language and literacy, despite immersion in English at school. Previous research suggests, however, that some bilingual children do better on phonological awareness (PA) tasks than monolinguals in preschool. Two experiments investigated the effect of language pair on PA by comparing monolingual and bilingual children's syllable, onset rime, phoneme and tone awareness using detection, deletion and segmentation tasks. Experiment 1 compared bilingual Putonghua-Cantonese children with two matched monolingual control groups. The bilingual group had enhanced phonological awareness. However, the monolingual Putonghua speakers performed better on the phoneme detection task. Experiment 2 compared Cantonese-English bilingual children and controls monolingual in Cantonese. While there was no overall group difference in PA, the bilingual children had better tone awareness. The profile of findings is considered for possible explanations of later literacy difficulties. 相似文献
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Rachael Xuereb 《Journal of Research in Reading》2009,32(3):327-348
This research considers aspects of literacy in Maltese–English bilingual children. The study examined the reading and phonological awareness skills in English and Maltese of children whose home language is Maltese and second language English. A sample of 50 typically developing Maltese pupils aged 8 years 0 months to 10 years 5 months was selected. Since commencing school at the age of 5 years, the children have been learning to read in Maltese and also in English. For the purpose of this study, Maltese reading and reading‐related tests were constructed to parallel the UK and US standardised assessments. The novel tests and the standardised tests were administered to all the children. Results showed that Maltese children read better in their first language (Maltese) than in English, the language of instruction. Findings also showed that phonological awareness measures correlated across first and second languages. The results are discussed in terms of L1 and L2 transfer, whereby the transparency of Maltese orthography and English phonological processing skills facilitate performance on phonological tasks in both Maltese and English. 相似文献
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Anthony JL Williams JM McDonald R Corbitt-Shindler D Carlson CD Francis DJ 《Annals of dyslexia》2006,56(2):239-270
Phonological awareness (PA), phonological memory (PM), and phonological access to lexical storage (also known as RAN), play
important roles in acquiring literacy. We examined the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of these phonological
processing abilities (PPAs) in 147 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children whose native language was Spanish. Confirmatory factor
analysis (CFA) supported the validity of each PPA as separate from general cognitive ability and separate from each other.
Moreover, structural equation modeling found RAN uniquely associated with knowledge of Spanish letter names and Spanish letter
sounds. PA was found the best predictor of children’s ability to distinguish alphabetic text from nonalphabetic text. Finally,
general cognitive ability was only indirectly associated with emergent literacy skills via PPAs. These results highlight the
importance of PPAs in the early literacy development of native Spanish speaking preschool children. 相似文献
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Marjolijn van Weerdenburg Ludo Verhoeven Hans van Balkom Anna Bosman 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2013,17(6):484-507
This study investigated the role of cognitive and language skills as predictors of early literacy skills in children with Specific Language Impairment. A range of cognitive and linguistic skills were assessed in a sample of 137 eight-year-old children with SLI at the beginning of the school year, and 6 months later on word decoding and reading comprehension. The cognitive and linguistic measures revealed four factors that were called language, speech, short-term memory, and phonological awareness. Structural equation modeling showed word decoding to be predicted by speech, short-term memory, and phonological awareness, whereas reading comprehension was predicted by word decoding skills and short-term memory. It can be concluded that in children with SLI variations in early word decoding are mostly determined by speech abilities and short-term memory, and to a lesser extent by phonological awareness. Moreover, reading comprehension turns out to be highly dependent on word decoding and short-term memory. 相似文献
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Thais Barbosa Monica Carolina Miranda Ruth F. Santos Orlando Francisco A. Bueno 《Reading and writing》2009,22(2):201-218
One of the most usual flaws that lead to literacy disability regards cognitive difficulties and alterations some children
present in the literacy process. Many studies have found alterations in phonological processing, more specifically in phonological
working memory (PWM) and phonological awareness (PA). Therefore, our aim was to identify alterations in skills of phonological
working memory, phonological awareness and language (semantic, syntactic and phonological aspects) of Brazilian children with
literacy disabilities (age 7–8). They were divided into two groups: (1) Group of Normal Literacy (NL); and (2) Group With
Literacy Disabilities (LD). The evaluation comprised tests that assessed general cognitive functions and the skills at stake.
The LD presented a poorer performance than the NL in the skills of PWM, PA and language aspects. The factor analysis showed
that these skills prevailed in differentiating the groups. Thus, children with literacy disabilities presented deficits in
phonological processing and language. These deficits seem to be a result of alterations of the phonological representations
and poor language skills that are prior to the literacy period. Consequently, we believe that the early identification of
these alterations can be very useful for the prevention of future literacy problems. 相似文献
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Giuliana Pinto Lucia Bigozzi Beatrice Accorti Gamannossi Claudio Vezzani 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2009,24(1):61-78
The aim of the present study is twofold: (1) contribute to identifying a model for the variables that compose the emergent
literacy construct and their relationships; (2) assess the predictive power of the emergent literacy model on early writing
abilities in a transparent orthography language.
We examined emergent literacy skills in 464 children (mean age 5.5, range: 48–6.1) who were followed longitudinally until
entering the 1st grade in primary school. Exploratory and Confirmatory factor analyses were used to address questions on the
nature of emergent literacy skills and their possible relationships. Regression analyses were implemented to evaluate the
predictive capability of an emergent literacy model on word writing competences. The factor analyses showed three factorial
dimensions (phonological, conceptual knowledge on writing system and textual) and their relationship. The regressions showed
a significant prediction of conceptual knowledge on writing system and of phonological abilities on early writing abilities. 相似文献
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《Scientific Studies of Reading》2013,17(4):369-400
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the same component processes are involved in reading acquisition for children with varying levels of proficiency in English in kindergarten and the first grade. The performance of 858 children was examined on tasks assessing basic literacy skills, phonological processing, verbal memory, and syntactic awareness. There were 727 children who were native English speakers (NS children) and 131 children who spoke English as a second language (ESL children). Although ESL children performed more poorly than NS children on most measures of phonological and linguistic processing in kindergarten and first grade, the acquisition of basic literacy skills for children from both language groups developed in a similar manner. Furthermore, alphabetic knowledge and phonological processing were important contributors to early reading skill for children from both language groups. Therefore, children learning English may acquire literacy skills in English in a similar manner to NS children, although their alphabetic knowledge may precede and facilitate the acquisition of phonological awareness in English. 相似文献
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The current study examined the construct of word-reading skills within and across English and Chinese. One hundred forty-three 5th graders who were native Chinese (Mandarin) speakers learning English as a second language completed 19 tasks representing phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and word decoding in both English and Chinese. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted within each language, and the results showed that the best-fitting model for both languages was the 3-factor model involving phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and word decoding. Across the 2 languages, the language-specific model fit better than other models with 1 or 2 language-general factors. These results suggest that word reading is not a unified, language-general ability within and across English and Chinese among Chinese children learning English as a second language. Instruction and intervention may need to target phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and word decoding in each language. 相似文献
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How do children use phonological knowledge about spoken language in acquiring literacy? Phonological precursors of literacy include phonological awareness, speech decoding skill, and lexical specificity (i.e., the richness of phonological representations in the mental lexicon). An intervention study investigated whether early literacy skills can be enhanced by training lexical specificity. Forty-two prereading 4-year-olds were randomly assigned to either an experimental group that was taught pairs of new words that differed minimally or a control group that received numeracy training. The experimental group gained on a rhyme awareness task, suggesting that learning phonologically specific new words fosters phonological awareness. 相似文献
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胡敏 《外语教学理论与实践》2013,1(2):28-35
本文以听辨测试的方式,考察中国英语学习者英语语音意识发展及三种语言经验对其发展的影响。结果表明：（1）四项奇异任务上,各层次语音意识发展均衡;两项计数任务的成绩显著低于奇异任务。( 2) 英语语音意识的总体发展和各层 次语音意识的发展都受到汉语语音意识水平的显著影响;英语水平只对英语语音意识的总体发展和最难的音节计数有显著影响; 方言对英语语音意识的总体发展和各层次语音意 识的发展均无显著影响。（3）三种语言经验相互作用共同影响英语语音意识的发展,即学习者主要套用汉语拼音知识完成各项语音意识任务,英语水平和方言所起的作用则视其汉语语音意识水平而有不同体现。 相似文献
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AbstractThis study aims to identify the predictors of Chinese reading and literacy skills among Chinese school children in Taiwan. Participants recruited in the study were 182 Grade 1 elementary school students. First, data were collected on these students’ literacy skills, which comprised morphological awareness, orthography processing, visual perception skills, phonological awareness, and rapid automatised naming. In Grade 2, data were collected from these students on their word decoding skills, which comprised character recognition and reading fluency. Finally, in Grade 3, data were collected on the Chinese comprehension skills of the same students. A structural equation model examined the direct and indirect effects of students’ literacy skills at Grade 1 on their reading comprehension at Grade 3, with students’ word decoding at Grade 2 acting as a mediator. Results showed that reading comprehension of students at Grade 3 was predicted by their literacy skills at Grade 1. 相似文献
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This study describes the language proficiency and early literacy skills of Cantonese-speaking English language learners (ELLs) in kindergarten. A total of 113 Cantonese-speaking kindergarteners in Canada and the United States, composed of three subsamples from three different locations participated in this study. Results showed that on average, the Cantonese-speaking ELLs in this study performed below average on vocabulary measures when compared with monolingual norms, but at or above average on English letter-word identification and phonological awareness (PA) tasks. Cluster analysis was used to identify two new groups of children based on their language proficiency in each language: English dominant and Cantonese dominant. There were no differences on PA in English and Cantonese between the cluster groups. However, the English dominant group performed significantly higher on English vocabulary and English decoding than the Cantonese dominant group. At the same time, the Cantonese dominant group performed significantly higher on Cantonese vocabulary and Cantonese word reading than the English dominant group. Finally, multiple regression analysis revealed that there was cross-language facilitation of PA on Chinese character recognition. Educational implications and directions for future research are discussed. 相似文献
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Karen L. Ford Sonia Q. Cabell Timothy R. Konold Marcia Invernizzi Lauren B. Gartland 《Reading and writing》2013,26(6):889-912
This study explored heterogeneity in literacy development among 2,300 Hispanic children receiving English as a Second Language (ESL) services at the start of kindergarten. Two research questions guided this work: (1) Do Spanish-speaking English language learners receiving ESL services in the fall of kindergarten demonstrate homogeneous early literacy skills, or are there distinct patterns of achievement across measures of phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and orthography? and (2) if there are distinct profiles, to what extent do they predict literacy achievement at the end of kindergarten and the beginning of first grade? Using cluster analysis, the authors identified four distinct literacy profiles derived from fall kindergarten measures of phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and phonetic spelling. These profiles were found to be associated with literacy outcomes in spring of kindergarten and fall of first grade. The two profiles that were associated with greater success on later measures of concept of word in text, letter sound knowledge, word reading, and spelling were the two that included stronger performance on orthographic skills (i.e., alphabet knowledge and phonetic spelling). These findings demonstrated that there is heterogeneity among Hispanic ESL students at kindergarten entry and suggested that literacy instruction must be differentiated from the very beginning in order to meet students’ individual needs. The findings also suggested that orthographic skills should be assessed and taught early on. While phonological awareness may be a necessary precursor to reading, phonological awareness in the absence of orthographic skills may not be sufficient. 相似文献
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This study investigated the relationships between phonological awareness and reading in Oriya and English. Oriya is the official language of Orissa, an eastern state of India. The writing system is an alphasyllabary. Ninety‐nine fifth grade children (mean age 9 years 7 months) were assessed on measures of phonological awareness, word reading and pseudo‐word reading in both languages. Forty‐eight of the children attended Oriya‐medium schools where they received literacy instruction in Oriya from grade 1 and learned English from grade 2. Fifty‐one children attended English‐medium schools where they received literacy instruction in English from grade 1 and in Oriya from grade 2. The results showed that phonological awareness in Oriya contributed significantly to reading Oriya and English words and pseudo‐words for the children in the Oriya‐medium schools. However, it only contributed to Oriya pseudo‐word reading and English word reading for children in the English‐medium schools. Phonological awareness in English contributed to English word and pseudo‐word reading for both groups. Further analyses investigated the contribution of awareness of large phonological units (syllable, onsets and rimes) and small phonological units (phonemes) to reading in each language. The data suggest that cross‐language transfer and facilitation of phonological awareness to word reading is not symmetrical across languages and may depend both on the characteristics of the different orthographies of the languages being learned and whether the first literacy language is also the first spoken language. 相似文献
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It has been suggested that children acquire spelling by picking up conditional sound-spelling consistencies. To examine this hypothesis, we investigated how variation in word characteristics (words that vary systematically in terms of phoneme-grapheme correspondences) and child factors (individual differences in the ability to extract phonological, morphological, and orthographic information) simultaneously relates to spelling accuracy. A total of 143 Korean-speaking children were assessed on spelling 4 times from prekindergarten to kindergarten. Words in the spelling task systematically varied in orthographic transparency stemming from phonological shifts. At Time 1 they were also assessed on emergent literacy or linguistic awareness skills (e.g., phonological awareness, morphological awareness, letter-name knowledge). Explanatory item response model revealed that (a) growth trajectories of spelling differed as a function of orthographic transparency, and (b) the effect of emergent literacy skills on words of varying transparency differed as a function of children’s emergent literacy skill levels and time. 相似文献
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Phonological awareness, phonological memory, and phonological access to lexical storage play important roles in acquiring
literacy. We examined the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of these phonological processing abilities (PPA)
in 389 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the validity of each PPA as separate from general
cognitive ability and separate from each other. Multigroup structural equation modeling (SEM) with mean structure demonstrated
that older preschoolers have better developed latent PPA than younger preschoolers but that the structure of PPA is equivalent.
RAN was found uniquely associated with letter knowledge and text discrimination in younger preschoolers, and PA was found
uniquely associated with word reading skills in older preschoolers. Finally, general cognitive ability was only indirectly
associated with emergent literacy via PPA. These results highlight the importance of PPA in the early literacy development
of English-speaking preschool children. 相似文献