The developmental trend of orthographic awareness in Chinese preschoolers

	The developmental trend of orthographic awareness in Chinese preschoolers
	Qian, Yi 1,2; Song, Yao-Wu 3; Zhao, Jing1,2 ; Bi, Hong-Yan1
摘要	The present study explored the developmental trend of orthographic awareness in Chinese-speaking preschoolers. A total of 184 children between 3 and 5 years of age participated in the study. Two developmental patterns of orthographic awareness were obtained. One pattern was dependent on a traditional Chinese orthographic hierarchy, with a sequence of writing system specificity, radical, whole character, radical combination rules, and stroke. Three-year-olds fully understood the writing-system-specific features of Chinese characters, and could distinguish characters from alphabetic scripts and drawings; the average accuracy was > 80 %. Five-year-olds were able to distinguish radicals from numbers, as well as regard non-characters with rotated radicals and missing radicals as illegal; the average accuracy was 87 %. At 5 years of age, children could detect whole character rotated non-characters with an average accuracy of 78 %, but were not proficient in identifying non-characters with absent strokes (the average accuracy was 69 %). The 5-year-old children did not know well about radical combination rules; the average accuracy was 67 %. The other pattern was associated with violation means of non-characters, which could be characterized as progressing from form types, to spatial formats, and finally to combination conventions. Children grasped legal form types of scripts (Chinese characters and radicals) at 3 years of age, with an average accuracy approaching 80 %. Five-year-old children detected illegal spatial characteristics of characters, such as up-down reversal, with an average accuracy of 78 %. However, children were unable to understand radical combination conventions even at 5 years of age; average accuracy was 67 %.
关键词	Orthographic awareness Chinese Preschool children Reading development Emergent literacy
	2015-04-01
语种	英语
发表期刊	READING AND WRITING
ISSN	0922-4777
卷号	28 期号:4 页码:571-586
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000350695800008
引用统计	被引频次：29[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/13415
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Hebei Univ, Coll Educ, Baoding 071002, Hebei, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Qian, Yi,Song, Yao-Wu,Zhao, Jing,et al. The developmental trend of orthographic awareness in Chinese preschoolers[J]. READING AND WRITING,2015,28(4):571-586.
APA	Qian, Yi,Song, Yao-Wu,Zhao, Jing,&Bi, Hong-Yan.(2015).The developmental trend of orthographic awareness in Chinese preschoolers.READING AND WRITING,28(4),571-586.
MLA	Qian, Yi,et al."The developmental trend of orthographic awareness in Chinese preschoolers".READING AND WRITING 28.4(2015):571-586.

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