TY - JOUR
T1 - Factors affecting L2 phonological awareness in Chinese-Dutch preschoolers
AU - Yuan, Han
AU - Segers, Eliane
AU - Verhoeven, Ludo
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by China scholarship council (201608340056).
Publisher Copyright:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
PY - 2020/10/19
Y1 - 2020/10/19
N2 - The present study compared the relationship between Dutch phonological awareness (rhyme awareness, initial phoneme isolation), Dutch speech decoding and Dutch receptive vocabulary in two groups in different linguistic environments: 30 Mandarin Chinese-Dutch bilingual children and 24 monolingual Dutch peers. Chinese vocabulary and phonological awareness were taken into account in the bilingual group. Bilingual children scored below their Dutch monolingual counterparts on all Dutch tasks. In the bilingual group, Dutch rhyme awareness was predicted by Dutch speech decoding, both directly, and indirectly via Dutch receptive vocabulary. When adding Chinese proficiency to the model, Chinese rhyme awareness was found to mediate the relationship between Dutch speech decoding and Dutch rhyme awareness. It can thus be concluded that second language (L2) phonological awareness in Chinese-Dutch kindergartners is affected by their L2 speech and vocabulary level, on the one hand, and their level of phonological awareness in the first language (L1).
AB - The present study compared the relationship between Dutch phonological awareness (rhyme awareness, initial phoneme isolation), Dutch speech decoding and Dutch receptive vocabulary in two groups in different linguistic environments: 30 Mandarin Chinese-Dutch bilingual children and 24 monolingual Dutch peers. Chinese vocabulary and phonological awareness were taken into account in the bilingual group. Bilingual children scored below their Dutch monolingual counterparts on all Dutch tasks. In the bilingual group, Dutch rhyme awareness was predicted by Dutch speech decoding, both directly, and indirectly via Dutch receptive vocabulary. When adding Chinese proficiency to the model, Chinese rhyme awareness was found to mediate the relationship between Dutch speech decoding and Dutch rhyme awareness. It can thus be concluded that second language (L2) phonological awareness in Chinese-Dutch kindergartners is affected by their L2 speech and vocabulary level, on the one hand, and their level of phonological awareness in the first language (L1).
KW - Chinese-Dutch children
KW - Language transfer
KW - Phonological awareness
KW - Speech decoding
KW - n/a OA procedure
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U2 - 10.1075/wll.00035.yua
DO - 10.1075/wll.00035.yua
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85095439368
SN - 1387-6732
VL - 23
SP - 109
EP - 128
JO - Written Language and Literacy
JF - Written Language and Literacy
IS - 1
ER -