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2098.57 Development of preschool children’s early reading and its relationship with home
literacy, Hui Zhou 1 , Bao Zhang 2 , 1 Sun Yat-sen University, China; 2 New Star Kindergarten, China
Both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs were employed to explore Chinese preschoolers’
emergent literacy development, as well as the influence of home literacy on emergent literacy.
Children’s early reading levels were indicated by knowledge of reading, character recognition and
story understanding. It was found that the development of children’s emergent literacy was
continual and the three components of emergent literacy developed independently. Home literacy
could account for 5.4% to 9.1% variance of children’s emergent literacy. Further path analysis
found that home literacy could impact children’s emergent literacy over time. Moreover, different
home literacy categories affected different components of emergent literacy.
2098.58 Paragraph structure awareness of Beijing and Hong Kong elementary school students,
Qiu Zheng 1 , Xinchun Wu 1 , Hua Shu 1 , Alice Cheng Lai 2 , 1 Beijing Normal University, China;
2
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
This research investigated the effect of five main paragraph structures on the elementary school
students of grade 3 and grade 5 from Beijing and Hong Kong while using a 25-item test consisting
of five kinds of traditional paragraph structures. The result showed that the paragraph structure
awareness of children from Beijing is significantly better than the children from Hong Kong and
as the grade increases, children’s paragraph structure awareness will improves significantly while
gender difference is not significant. It also seemed that some kinds of paragraphs structure will be
easier for the children to grasp.
2098.59 The development of phonological awareness in Chinese children, Fen Xu, Qi Dong, Jie
Yang, Wenxing Wang, Beijing Normal Universtiy, China
This study examined Chinese children’s development of phonological awareness. In the short-term
longitudinal study, the results show: (1) there is no significant difference of accuracy in tasks of
Chinese rhyming, onset, tone awareness for the test taken in the beginning of first semester. But
tone awareness was being developed faster than others in the end of the semester. (2) Different
components of English phonological awareness have different developmental level. In the
cross-sectional study, the results show that both Chinese and English phonological awareness was
developed with the grades but development speed varies according to different components of
phonological awareness.
2098.60 Auditory pattern discrimination and phonological processing in children of school age,
Miyuki Hosokawa 1 , Naoko Muroya 1 , Shinji Sato 2 , Hisao Maekawa 2 , 1 Doctral degree program
of disability sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan; 2 Institute of Disability Sciences, University of
Tsukuba, Japan
The purpose of this study is to examine the relation between the ability of phonological processing
(phonological awareness, phonological recoding, and phonetic recoding in working memory) and
the ability of auditory pattern discrimination in children of school age. Subjects were 42 younger
children (CA6:07-9:06) and 48 elder children (CA 10:07-15:11), and each children group was
divided more two groups by the performance of pattern discrimination task. The performances of
phonological processing tasks were compared two groups. In results, it was suggested that the
performance of pattern discrimination was associated with the performance of phonological
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