Chinese-English biliteracy acquisition: cross-language and writing system transfer

被引:173
作者
Wang, M
Perfetti, CA
Liu, Y
机构
[1] Univ Maryland, Dept Human Dev, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[2] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
关键词
Chinese; English; phonological; orthographic processing; word reading;
D O I
10.1016/j.cognition.2004.10.001
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
This study investigated cross-language and writing system relationship in biliteracy acquisition of children learning to read two different writing systems-Chinese and English. Forty-six Mandarin-speaking children were tested for their first language (Chinese-L1) and second language (English-L2) reading skills. Comparable experiments in Chinese and English were designed focusing on two reading processes-phonological and orthographic processing. Word reading skills in both writing systems were tested. Results revealed that Chinese onset matching skill was significantly correlated with English onset and rime matching skills. Pinyin, an alphabetic phonetic system used to assist children in learning to read Chinese characters, was highly correlated with English pseudoword reading. Furthermore, Chinese tone processing skill contributed a moderate but significant amount of variance in predicting English pseudoword reading even when English phonemic-level processing skill was taken into consideration. Orthographic processing skill in the two writing systems, on the other hand, did not predict each other's word reading. These findings suggest that bilingual reading acquisition is a joint function of shared phonological processes and orthographic specific skills. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:67 / 88
页数:22
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