TY - JOUR
T1 - Small Wins Big
T2 - Analytic Pinyin Skills Promote Chinese Word Reading
AU - Lin, Dan
AU - McBride-Chang, Catherine
AU - Shu, Hua
AU - Zhang, Yuping
AU - Li, Hong
AU - Zhang, Juan
AU - Aram, Dorit
AU - Levin, Iris
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported in part by Hong Kong Government General Research Fund Grants 448608 and 448907 and by National Science Foundation of China Grants 30870758 and 60534080.
PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - The present study examined invented spelling of pinyin (a phonological coding system for teaching and learning Chinese words) in relation to subsequent Chinese reading development. Among 296 Chinese kindergartners in Beijing, independent invented pinyin spelling was found to be uniquely predictive of Chinese word reading 12 months later, even with Time 1 syllable deletion, phoneme deletion, and letter knowledge, in addition to the autoregressive effects of Time 1 Chinese word reading, statistically controlled. These results underscore the importance of children's early pinyin representations for Chinese reading acquisition, both theoretically and practically. The findings further support the idea of a universal phonological principle and indicate that pinyin is potentially an ideal measure of phonological awareness in Chinese.
AB - The present study examined invented spelling of pinyin (a phonological coding system for teaching and learning Chinese words) in relation to subsequent Chinese reading development. Among 296 Chinese kindergartners in Beijing, independent invented pinyin spelling was found to be uniquely predictive of Chinese word reading 12 months later, even with Time 1 syllable deletion, phoneme deletion, and letter knowledge, in addition to the autoregressive effects of Time 1 Chinese word reading, statistically controlled. These results underscore the importance of children's early pinyin representations for Chinese reading acquisition, both theoretically and practically. The findings further support the idea of a universal phonological principle and indicate that pinyin is potentially an ideal measure of phonological awareness in Chinese.
KW - kindergartners
KW - letter-name knowledge
KW - phonological awareness
KW - pinyin
KW - reading
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78149457354&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0956797610375447
DO - 10.1177/0956797610375447
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AN - SCOPUS:78149457354
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 21
SP - 1117
EP - 1122
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 8
ER -
