英语语音意识在维吾尔族儿童英语单词读写发展中的预测作用

The Predictive Powers of Phonological Awareness in Uyghur Children’s English Word-Level Reading and Spelling

本研究通过两项实验测查了英语语音意识的不同成分(音位意识、首尾韵意识和音节意识)对四至六年级维吾尔族双语班儿童英语单词阅读及拼写发展的预测作用。通过偏相关和分层回归分析方法,研究发现:(1)不同语音技能在不同阅读水平儿童单词阅读中的预测作用存在差异,其中,音位意识在阅读正常组儿童单词阅读中具有重要作用,首尾韵意识在阅读较差组儿童单词阅读中作用明显;(2)英语单词阅读与拼写对语音意识的依赖程度存在差异,其中,只有首尾韵意识对英语单词阅读的预测作用显著;而首尾韵和音位意识对单词拼写均有显著预测作用。结论显示,Ziegler和Goswami(2005)提出的心理语言学纹理理论对儿童拼写能力发展具有较好的解释力,其对儿童阅读能力发展的解释力可能会受儿童母语语音结构、汉语拼音和英语读写水平的影响。

In this study, two experiments were conducted to examine the predictive roles of different components of phonological awareness, including phoneme awareness, onset-rime awareness and syllable awareness, in English wordlevel reading and spelling among Uyghur bilingual children from Grade 4 to Grade 6. Partial correlation analysis in combination with stepwise regression analysis of the data showed the following results:(1) The components of phonological awareness play different roles in word-level reading in English among Uyghur children of different reading proficiency levels. To be specific phoneme awareness assumed a significant role in word-level reading among normal readers, whereas onset-rime awareness was the only significant predictor for poor readers.(2) Uyghur children’s English word-level reading and spelling vary in their degree of dependence on phonological awareness in English. While onset-rime awareness was a significant predictor for wordlevel reading, both onset-rime awareness and phoneme awareness had a significant predictive power on word-level spelling. Such results give partial support to Ziegler & Goswami(2005)’s grain size theory.