Poor Oral Discourse Skills Are the Key Cognitive-Linguistic Weakness of Chinese Poor Comprehenders: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study

Autor/inn/en	Fong, Cathy Yui-Chi; Ho, Connie Suk Han
Titel	Poor Oral Discourse Skills Are the Key Cognitive-Linguistic Weakness of Chinese Poor Comprehenders: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study
Quelle	In: First Language, 39 (2019) 3, S.281-297 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fong, Cathy Yui-Chi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723719830868
Schlagwörter	Oral Language; Reading Difficulties; Decoding (Reading); Psycholinguistics; Chinese; Reading Comprehension; Elementary School Students; Grade 1; Kindergarten; Comparative Analysis; Short Term Memory; Preschool Children; Intervention; Foreign Countries; Reading Tests; Grammar; Vocabulary Development; Identification; Correlation; Longitudinal Studies; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit; Dekodierung; Psycholinguistik; China; Chinesen; Leseverstehen; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ausland; Lesetest; Grammatik; Wortschatzarbeit; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Korrelation; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Hongkong
Abstract	Prior research on reading difficulties has mainly focused on word decoding problems. However, there exists another group of children -- poor comprehenders (PCs) -- who have normal word decoding abilities but difficulties in reading comprehension. Less is known about PCs especially in non-alphabetic languages such as Chinese. This study identified three groups -- poor decoders, PCs, and average readers -- among 103 Chinese children at the end of first grade. Children's performances in reading and cognitive-linguistic measures, both concurrently at first grade and retrospectively at kindergarten levels two and three, were then compared among the three groups. This study is the first to demonstrate the distinct cognitive profiles of poor decoders and PCs in Chinese. The key cognitive-linguistic weaknesses of Chinese PCs were found to be in oral discourse skills and working memory. The retrospective data further revealed their oral discourse weakness as early as in preschool years at age 5. Practically, the necessity of developing assessment and intervention tools that focus on oral discourse skills for Chinese PCs is highlighted. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01