Contribution of morphological awareness to Chinese-English biliteracy acquisition.
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This study is an investigation of the contribution of morphological awareness in Chinese-English biliteracy acquisition. Comparable tasks in Chinese and English were administered to test children's skills in morphological awareness, phonological awareness, oral vocabulary, word reading, and reading comprehension. The results showed that after the effect of Chinese-based predictors had been accounted for, English morphological awareness of compound structure still contributed to variance in both character reading and reading comprehension in Chinese. This finding indicates a cross-language morphological transfer in acquisition of two distinct writing systems. The transfer from English L2 to Chinese L1 is due to the bilingual children's rapidly increasing English L2 skills in their primary school years.
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Wang et al. (2006a) study indicated that English morphological compounding predicted Chinese reading comprehension.
“By contrast, Wang et al. (2006a) study on Chinese children in the U.S. indicated that English morphological compounding predicted Chinese reading comprehension.”
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- Authors
- Wang, M., Cheng, C., & Chen, S.-W.
- Affiliations
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- ORCID
- Wang, Min
- Venue
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Published
- 2006-08
- Volume
- 98
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 542-553
- ISSN
- 0022-0663 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2176
- OpenAlex
- W1988575091
- Cited by
- 342
- References
- 42
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- FWCI
- 11.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Educational Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (R01HD048438-01)
- National Academy of Education
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Keywords
- morphological awareness, biliteracy, Chinese-English bilingualism, cross-language transfer, compound words, character reading, reading comprehension, phonological awareness, vocabulary, second language acquisition, bilingual children
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