TY - JOUR
AU - Hanley, J. Richard
AB - The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether a child’sphonological awareness and visual skills before instruction in school had anypredictive power for later Chinese reading ability among 1st-graders in Taiwan. Thestudy also examined the extent to which phonological awareness and visual skillsvaried in three separate testing sessions during the 1st grade. These testingsessions took place just before the children had learned the alphabetic systemZhu-Yin-Fu-Hao, immediately after the children had learnt Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hao, and,finally, at the end of the first year of schooling. Forty 6-year-old Chinesechildren from Taiwan took part in the study. The test materials included a ChineseCharacters Reading Test, a set of Phonological Awareness tests, a Visual PairedAssociates learning test, and a vocabulary and IQ test. Phonological awareness atthe first testing session was found to be significantly related to the ability toread Chinese characters at the end of the first year. However, the predictive powerof early phonological awareness decreased markedly when the effects of preschoolreading scores were partialled out. Therefore, the study provided evidence thatphonological processes are significantly related to success in the first year ofChinese reading, but was unable to establish whether or not differences inphonological skills are a cause of differences in the reading ability of Chinesechildren. In addition 10 weeks of instruction in Zhu-Yin-Fu-Hao led to an increasein performance on all tests of phonological awareness. This is consistent with theview that learning an alphabetic script improves phonological awareness ability.
TI - A Longitudinal Study of Phonological Awareness, Visual Skills, and Chinese Reading Acquisition among First-graders in Taiwan
JF - International Journal of Behavioral Development
DO - 10.1080/016502597385324
DA - 1997-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/a-longitudinal-study-of-phonological-awareness-visual-skills-and-Fo0Tk0qVIm
SP - 249
EP - 268
VL - 20
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -