Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 193-199.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.02.08

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Reciprocal Relationship between Morphological Awareness and Character Dictation——A Longitudinal Study

ZHANG Chao1, DING Yuan1, LI Liping1, CHEN Qingping1, WU Xinchun2   

  1. 1. School of Education Science, Experimental Teaching Center of Psychology and Cognitive Behavior, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen 041000;
    2. Research Center of Children's Reading and Learning, Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2020-03-19

Abstract: Character dictation is an important ability in the process of individual literacy development, and morphological awareness is a vital cognitive factor that affects the ability of dictation. In order to explore whether the reciprocal prediction relationship between morphological awareness and character dictation changes over time, students in grade 1 and grade 5 were tested by morphological awareness (including homophone awareness and homograph awareness) and dictation in a two-wave study. Controlling for IQ, age, and phonological awareness, the results showed that:(1) T1 homophone awareness and T1 homograph awareness predicted significantly T2 character dictation in grade 1 (explaining 7% and 8% variance respectively), but T1 morphological awareness did not predict significantly T2 character dictation in grade 5; (2) T1 character dictation predicted significantly T2 homophone awareness and T2 homograph awareness in grade 5 (explaining 5% and 6% variance respectively), but T1 character dictation did not predict significantly T2 morphological awareness in grade 1. The results investigated that the bi-directional prediction relationship between morphological awareness and character dictation did not exist in grade 1 and grade 5 for Chinese children, and the relationship would change over time.

Key words: homophone awareness, homograph awareness, character dictation

CLC Number: 

  • G442
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