外国语

外国语 ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 44-55.

• 语言研究 • 上一篇    

语言理解技能、解码技能及元语言认知技能对汉语儿童英语阅读理解的作用

李光泽, 李荣宝   

  1. 福建师范大学 外国语学院, 福建 福州 350007
  • 收稿日期:2022-05-26 发布日期:2023-10-08
  • 作者简介:李光泽(1975-),福建德化人,男,博士,副教授。研究方向:心理语言学;李荣宝(1957-),福建武平人,男,博士,教授,博士生导师。研究方向:心理语言学。
  • 基金资助:
    福建省社会科学基金一般项目"方言经验影响老年双语者认知控制神经效率的ERP研究"（FJ2022B042）

The Roles of Linguistic Comprehension Skills, Decoding Skills and Metalinguistic-Cognitive Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children's English Reading Comprehension

LI Guangze, LI Rongbao   

  1. College of Foreign Languages, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China
  • Received:2022-05-26 Published:2023-10-08

摘要： 本研究以103名小学五、六年级汉语儿童为对象，综合考察语言理解技能、解码技能和元语言认知技能在英语阅读理解中的作用。语言理解技能包括听力理解和口语词汇，解码技能为词汇认读，元语言认知技能包括语音意识、语素意识、正字法意识以及快速命名。多元回归分析和路径分析结果显示，语言理解技能、解码技能和元语言认知技能对汉语儿童英语阅读理解具有很强的解释力，元语言认知技能直接地抑或以语言理解技能和解码技能为中介间接地作用于英语阅读理解；语素意识和口语词汇是最终构成汉语儿童英语阅读的两大核心技能。研究表明汉语儿童英语二语阅读具有阅读的普遍性又有其独特性，研究结果对于基础阶段英语阅读教学、阅读学习和阅读测评都具有重要的启示。

关键词: 汉语儿童, 语素意识, 口语词汇, 英语阅读理解, 阅读核心构成技能

Abstract: This study comprehensively examines the roles of linguistic comprehension skills, decoding skills and metalinguistic-cognitive skills in English reading comprehension among 103 Chinese fifth and sixth graders.Specifically, the linguistic comprehension and decoding skills involved comprise English listening comprehension and oral vocabulary, as well as word reading, respectively, and the metalinguistic-cognitive skills involved include English phonological awareness, morphological awareness, orthographic awareness, and rapid naming.Results from multiple regressions and path analysis show that linguistic comprehension skills, decoding skills and metalinguistic-cognitive skills account for a large proportion of variance in English reading comprehension of Chinese children, with metalinguistic-cognitive skills affecting English reading comprehension either directly or indirectly via the mediation of linguistic comprehension skills and decoding skills, and morphological awareness and oral vocabulary being two core component skills as final predictors of Chinese children's English reading.The findings suggest that reading English as a second language in Chinese children has universal properties of reading as well as its own specificity, providing significant implications for English reading teaching, reading acquisition and reading assessment at the stage of China's basic education.

Key words: Chinese-speaking children, morphological awareness, oral vocabulary, English reading comprehension, core component skills of reading

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