Development of Morphological Awareness in Chinese and English

Although Taiwanese students had a lower level of morphological understanding than American students at second grade, Taiwanese sixth graders were slightly but not significantly ahead of American sixth graders. The acquisition of Chinese derivational morphology seems to lag behind that of compounding rules, which might reflect the nature of Chinese word formation in that there are far fewer derivatives than compounds in Chinese. Because the correlation between morphological awareness and reading proficiency was higher among Taiwanese students than American students, morphological awareness appears to be more important for Chinese-speaking children's reading development than English-speaking children's reading development.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Ku, Yu-Min

Contributors dc:contributor

• Anderson, Richard C.

• Education, Reading

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3017133

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/79594