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The Roles of Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness, and Rapid Naming in Linguistic Skills Development of Kindergartener

LI Hong1, RAO Xiao-wei1, DONG Qiong1, ZHU Jin2, WU Xin-chun1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Sunglory Education Research Institute, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2011-03-15 Published:2011-03-15

Abstract: 130 children from first year to third year of kindergarten were tested on a battery of phonological awareness,morphological awareness,and rapid naming tasks to explore the roles of those skills in vocabulary,character recognition and reading comprehension of Chinese children.The results showed that(a) all skills of kindergarten were improved gradually with age,(b) phonological awareness and morphological awareness played central roles in children's vocabulary acquisition,(c) phonological awareness,morphological awareness,and rapid naming unique predicted character recognition respectively when children's age and vocabulary was statistically controlled,(d) morphological awareness explained unique variance in Chinese children's reading comprehension when age and all other skills were controlled.The findings support the conclusion that morphological awareness was very important for Chinese children to learning to read.

Key words: phonological awareness, morphological awareness, rapid naming, linguistic skills development, kindergarten

CLC Number: 

  • G442
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