Speech Prosody and Reading Comprehension in Chinese–English Bilingual Children: The Mediating Role of Syntactic Awareness.
Purpose: Although children’s prosodic sensitivity links with their reading com- prehension, the factors affecting this link remain unclear. By simultaneously measuring first language (L1) Chinese and second language (L2) English pro- sodic sensitivity and reading comprehension, this study examined t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 66; no. 7; pp. 2362 - 2376 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=164881404&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 164881404 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2023 vid: 66 iid: 7 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 164881404 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00026 ppf: 2362 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 962KB tig: atl: Speech Prosody and Reading Comprehension in Chinese–English Bilingual Children: The Mediating Role of Syntactic Awareness. aug: au: Xiuhong Tong Qinli Deng Shelley Xiuli Tong affil: Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong. Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. su: Hong Kong (China) Memory Cognition Comparative grammar Vocabulary Reading Intelligence tests Phonological awareness Physiological aspects of speech English language Musical pitch Regression analysis Speech evaluation Multilingualism in children Neuropsychological tests Descriptive statistics Questionnaires Research funding Musical perception sug: subj: Memory Cognition Comparative grammar Vocabulary Reading Intelligence tests Hong Kong (China) Phonological awareness Physiological aspects of speech English language Musical pitch Regression analysis Speech evaluation Multilingualism in children Neuropsychological tests Descriptive statistics Questionnaires Research funding Musical perception ab: Purpose: Although children’s prosodic sensitivity links with their reading com- prehension, the factors affecting this link remain unclear. By simultaneously measuring first language (L1) Chinese and second language (L2) English pro- sodic sensitivity and reading comprehension, this study examined the mediating role of syntactic awareness on prosody–reading comprehension among Hong Kong Chinese–English bilingual children. Method: A group of 227 Hong Kong Chinese–English bilingual fourth graders completed L1 and L2 prosodic sensitivity (Cantonese lexical tone awareness and English prosodic sensitivity), syntactic awareness, and reading comprehen- sion and control measures of cognitive (nonverbal IQ, short-term memory, and working memory), metalinguistic (phonological awareness and morphological awareness), linguistic (vocabulary knowledge), and word reading skills. Results: The within-language analyses showed a partial mediation effect of Chinese syntactic awareness on the relation between Cantonese lexical tone awareness and Chinese reading comprehension, but a full mediation effect of English syntactic awareness on the relation between English prosodic sensitivity and English reading comprehension. The cross-language analyses revealed a significant direct effect of Cantonese lexical tone awareness on English reading comprehension and a significant indirect effect of English prosodic sensitivity on Chinese reading comprehension via Chinese syntactic awareness. Conclusion: These findings suggest that, despite the language-independent mediating role of syntactic awareness in bridging prosody and reading compre- hension, the degree of this mediation is shaped by language-specific prosody and its relations with other linguistic structures, including semantics. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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