Phonetic awareness: Knowledge of orthography-phonology relationships in the character acquisition of Chinese children

Publication Type  Journal Article
Year of Publication  2000
Authors  Shu, H.; Anderson, R.C.; Wu, N.
Journal Title  Journal of Educational Psychology
Volume  92
Pages  56-62
Journal Date  Mar
ISBN Number  0022-0663
Accession Number  2000-03003-005
摘要  33This study investigated the development of phonetic awareness, meaning insight into the structure and function of the component of Chinese characters that gives a clue to pronunciation. Participants were 113 Chinese 2nd, 4th, and 6th graders enrolled in a working-class Beijing, China elementary school. The children's task was to represent the pronunciation of 60 semantic phonetic compound characters. As anticipated, both character familiarity and character regularity strongly influenced performance. Children as young as 2nd graders are better able to represent the pronunciation of regular characters than irregular characters or characters with bound phonetics. Phonetic awareness continues to develop over the elementary school years, as is shown by the increasing influence of phonetic regularity on the performance of children in higher grades and the increasing percentage of phonetic-related errors among older children. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA ) (journal abstract)
Notes  4410.1037/0022-0663.92.1.56Journal; Peer Reviewed Journal
  
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