Morphological awareness predicts the growth rate of Chinese character reading

• Published in: Developmental science Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. e12793 - n/a
• Main Authors: Lin, Dan, Sun, Huilin, McBride, Catherine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley-Blackwell 01.07.2019; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Accuracy; Age Differences; Beginning Reading; Children; Foreign Countries; Growth rate; Intelligence; Kindergarten; Language; Morphology; Morphology (Languages); Orthographic Symbols; Phonological Awareness; Preschool Children; Reading; Reading Skills; Skill Development; Spatial Ability; Visual Perception; Written Language; Hong Kong

In this longitudinal study, we assessed 88 Hong Kong Chinese typically developing kindergarteners' Chinese character reading accuracy four times with 6‐month intervals over 1.5 years with the first testing point in the fall of the second year of kindergarten (K2), during which morphological awa...