以140名幼儿园儿童为研究对象,系统探讨了语素意识的不同层面在儿童口头言语和书面言语技能发展中的作用。结果显示:(1)学前儿童已经不同程度地发展出词素意识、同形语素意识和形旁意识;(2)学前儿童的词素意识和同形语素意识在口语词汇获得中具有重要作用;(3)同形语素意识和形旁意识对于书面言语技能的发展具有独特的解释作用。
140 children from first year to third year of kindergarten were tested in a battery of morphological awareness and linguislic skill tasks to explore the relationship between those skills. The results showed that (a) morphological awareness including morpheme awareness, homograph awareness and radical awareness emerged relative early in Chinese kindergarteners; (b) morpheme awareness and homograph awareness played a central role in children's vocabulary acquisition; (e) homograph awareness and radical awareness explained unique variance in Chinese children's literacy development.