Psychological Development and Education ›› 2002, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (4): 31-35.

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Development of Chinese Children’s Early Word Awareness

XU Fen1, Bruce Homer2, Kang Lee3   

  1. 1. Key Lab for Cognitive Science and Learning of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. New York University;
    3. Queen's University
  • Online:2002-10-15 Published:2002-10-15

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Abstract: The present study discussed acquisition of Chinese young children's word and syllable awareness and the age differences.The participants aged from 4-to 6-year-old were asked to repeat a last word or sound in sentence task and story task and to circle one word or sound which experimenter said on the script.The results showed that: (1) 4-year-old children's correct responses were under 50% in word awareness and syllable awareness tasks,and the same as 5-year-olds in word awareness task.(2) 6-year-old children made correct responses over 90%.(3) all children's performance was much better in syllable awareness task than in word awareness task.

Key words: word/syllable awareness, young children, metalinguistic awareness

CLC Number: 

  • B842.5
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