TY - JOUR
T1 - Morphological Awareness in Literacy Acquisition of Chinese Second Graders
T2 - A Path Analysis
AU - Zhang, Haomin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - The present study tested a path diagram regarding the contribution of morphological awareness (MA) to early literacy acquisition among Chinese-speaking second graders (N=123). Three facets of MA were addressed, namely derivational awareness, compound awareness and compound structure awareness. The model aimed to test a theory of causal order among measures of MA and literacy outcomes. Drawing upon multivariate path analysis, direct and indirect effects of MA were analyzed to identify their role in literacy performance among young children. Results revealed that all three facets of MA made significant contributions to lexical inference ability. In addition, compound awareness showed a unique and significant contribution to vocabulary knowledge. It was also observed that lexical inference ability had a mediating effect predictive of both vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. Moreover, vocabulary knowledge mediated the effect of MA on reading comprehension. However, no significant contribution of MA to reading comprehension was found after controlling for lexical inference ability and vocabulary knowledge.
AB - The present study tested a path diagram regarding the contribution of morphological awareness (MA) to early literacy acquisition among Chinese-speaking second graders (N=123). Three facets of MA were addressed, namely derivational awareness, compound awareness and compound structure awareness. The model aimed to test a theory of causal order among measures of MA and literacy outcomes. Drawing upon multivariate path analysis, direct and indirect effects of MA were analyzed to identify their role in literacy performance among young children. Results revealed that all three facets of MA made significant contributions to lexical inference ability. In addition, compound awareness showed a unique and significant contribution to vocabulary knowledge. It was also observed that lexical inference ability had a mediating effect predictive of both vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. Moreover, vocabulary knowledge mediated the effect of MA on reading comprehension. However, no significant contribution of MA to reading comprehension was found after controlling for lexical inference ability and vocabulary knowledge.
KW - Lexical inference ability
KW - Mediating effects
KW - Morphological awareness
KW - Reading comprehension
KW - Vocabulary knowledge
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84957430187
U2 - 10.1007/s10936-014-9327-1
DO - 10.1007/s10936-014-9327-1
M3 - 文章
C2 - 25308872
AN - SCOPUS:84957430187
SN - 0090-6905
VL - 45
SP - 103
EP - 119
JO - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
JF - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
IS - 1
ER -