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WU Chao, LIU Zhi, WANG Pan
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2020.09.001
Nanchang Business College, Jiangxi, China
Increasing research has revealed that phonological sensitivity plays an important part in learning to read alphabetic scripts among L1 English speakers, speakers of other alphabetic languages, and those who use non-Roman alphabetic scripts. The current study shows that, despite the emerging small-unit phonological sensitivity, whether the participants had more sophisticated and large-unit phonological sensitivity? Whether phonological sensitivity is likely to be a general skill reflected in the phonology of all languages and develops regardless of whether an opaque relationship exists between the orthography and the phonology of a language? In addition, the observed inter-connection implies that cross language transfer of phonological processing skills might have occurred from L1 to L2 because of L1 literacy instruction. But the interpretation of the results from this study is not as good as expected. As the phonemic segmentation task was a productive assessment, it posed a greater challenge to the young learners and consequently might have compromised the hypothesis trend of phonological sensitivity. Suggestions for further study would be an employment of tasks with the same type of response. Furthermore, it is positive to recruit preschoolers as well as novice readers so as to demonstrate if Chinese children could only develop sub-syllabic perception in the wake of Hanyu Pinyin instruction.
phonological sensitivity, cross-language transfer, phonological processing skills
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