阅读训练对儿童早期字词意识发展的作用

THE EFFECTS OF LITERACY ON CHINESE CHILDREN'S EARLY WORD AWARENESS

该研究探讨了幼儿园中、大班及小学一、二年级儿童在完成字 /词意识任务上的年龄差异以及阅读训练对字 /词意识发展的影响。实验结果表明 :(1) 5岁儿童的字词意识尚处于不断的发展之中。 6岁及 7岁儿童的字意识发展已经达到了成熟水平 ;但他们的词意识正处于不断的发展之中。 (2 )初级的阅读训练促进了5岁儿童字意识的发展 ,但对词意识的发展没有影响。 (3)小学语文教学对 6岁儿童的口头任务没有影响 ,但显著地促进了圈词任务成绩的提高。

Department of Appiled Psychology,New York University)Kang Lee (Psychology Department,Queens University) The present study examined whether or not literacy affected Chinese children' s word and character awareness in kindergartens and primary schools of first and second grades. The participants aged from 5 - 7-years-old were arranged into five groups respectively representing different levels of literacy. There were two groups of 5 - year - olds. The kids in Group A did not receive any training in Chinese reading,but the kids in Group B did have training for one year, so did the 6-year-old kids in Group C. The 6 - and 7 - year - old kids in Groups D and E were in primary school grade 1 and grade 2 respectively. All participants were asked to repeat a last word or sound in the sentence task and the story task and to circle one word or sound which the experimenter uttered on the script. The results showed that: (1) the basic reading training helped the 5 -year -olds make significant progress in character awareness, but not in word awareness. (2 ) The 6 - year - olds having normal education in Chinese made more correct response than kids in Group C in the text task,but not in the oral task.