General auditory processing, Chinese tone processing, English phonemic processing and English reading skill: a comparison between Chinese-English and Korean-English bilingual children |
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| Authors: | Min Wang Alida Anderson Chenxi Cheng Yoonjung Park and Jennifer Thomson |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304P Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA;(2) Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, UK |
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| Abstract: | In the present study, we investigated the relationship between general auditory processing, Chinese tone processing, English
phonemic processing and English reading skill in a group of Chinese-English bilingual children with a tonal L1 and Korean-English
counterparts with a non-tonal L1. We found that general auditory processing contributed to variance in English word reading
skill for Chinese children after controlling for Chinese tone and English phoneme deletion skill. English phonemic processing,
on the other hand, explained a significant amount of unique variance in English reading for Korean children after controlling
for general auditory and Chinese tone skill. These findings suggest that Chinese children relied more on general auditory
processing in reading English, whereas Korean children relied more on phonemic skill in reading English. These findings are
discussed in terms of the impact of cross-language differences in bilingual reading acquisition. |
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| Keywords: | Auditory processing Chinese tone processing Chinese-English bilingual children English phoneme deletion English reading skill Korean-English bilingual children |
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