Abstract
The purpose of this study was to measure meta-linguistic awareness and the relationship between meta-linguistic awareness and Chinese character recognition among elementary school students from grades 1 to 3. The study was divided into development study and relationship study. In the development study, the purpose was to investigate the development of meta-linguistic awareness. On the other hand, the relationship study was to investigate the relationship between meta-linguistic awareness ability and Chinese character recognition ability. Participants were 117 elementary schoolers from grades 1 to 3. The test materials in the research included: Phonological Awareness Test, Tone Awareness Test, Morpheme Awareness Test, and the Graded Chinese Character Reading Test. The results of the study were summarized as follows: (1) The results showed that phonological awareness ability was significantly different in the various grade levels. (2) The performance on the Tone Awareness Test was not different from grade 1 to grade 3. (3) There was significant difference on the Morpheme Awareness Test among the 3 grades. (4) Meta-linguistic awareness was significantly related to Chinese character recognition ability. Moreover, morpheme awareness was a significant predictor for Chinese character recognition ability.
| Keywords: | meta-linguistic awareness; Chinese character recognition; measurement |
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