Developmental changes in the role of different metalinguistic awareness skills in Chinese reading acquisition from preschool to third grade.

ABSTRACT: The present study investigated the relationship between Chinese reading skills and metalinguistic awareness skills such as phonological, morphological, and orthographic awareness for 101 Preschool, 94 Grade-1, 98 Grade-2, and 98 Grade-3 children from two primary schools in Mainland China. The aim of the study was to examine how each of these metalinguistic awareness skills would exert their influence on the success of reading in Chinese with age. The results showed that all three metalinguistic awareness skills significantly predicted reading success. It further revealed that orthographic awareness played a dominant role in the early stages of reading acquisition, and its influence decreased with age, while the opposite was true for the contribution of morphological awareness. The results

SUBMITTER: Wei TQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4014499 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature