Psychological Development and Education ›› 2013, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (2): 147-151.

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The Role of Morphological Awareness in Linguistic Skills Development of Chinese Kindergartener：Evidence from A Longitudinal Study

DONG Qiong, LI Hong, WU Xin-chun, RAO Xiao-wei, ZHU Jin   

  1. School of psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2013-03-15 Published:2013-03-15

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Abstract: To explore the roles of compounding awareness, homograph awareness and radical awareness in the development of oral vocabulary, character recognition and reading comprehension, 75 kindergarteners were tested twice over one and half years interval. The results show that (1) all aspects of morphological awareness and linguistic skills of kindergarten were improved with time, (2) with autoregression effects of linguistic skills controlled, homograph awareness uniquely predicted the later vocabulary, and compounding awareness uniquely predicted the later character recognition, and both compounding awareness and radical awareness explained unique variance in later reading comprehension.

Key words: Morphological awareness, Linguistic skills development, Kindergartener, Longitudinal study

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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