This study examined
the interrelationships between Chinese syntax consciousness and Chinese reading
comprehension among 129 Hong Kong Chinese-speaking children who participated in
a 10-year longitudinal study. All children are tested on nonverbal reasoning
tasks, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge,
word reading, syntactic judgment / correction, cloaking, and reading
comprehension. The results show that the syntactic awareness of children at age
11 is significantly related to their reading comprehension at age 12 years even
after considering the ability of early nonverbal reasoning, phonological
awareness, morphological awareness, word reading, vocabulary knowledge, and
reading comprehension of previous years.
The results also show that
the child's performance in reading comprehension at age 11 accounts for
substantial variance in syntactic awareness at age 12. These findings suggest
that the relationship between syntactic awareness and reading comprehension is
two-way, and the two are mutually reinforcing during the development of
children speaking Cantonese.
Annisa Masnasuri Kesai
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