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Effects of phonological awareness and morphological awareness on blind students' reading comprehension
Hongjun Chen1, Ying Zhao2, Xinchun Wu1,3
1Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Research Center of Children's Reading and Learning, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
The exploration of blind students' reading skills is needed not only for further understanding their reading development but also for providing targeted suggestions for practical education. This study aims to examine the relations among phonological awareness (PA), homograph awareness (HA), compounding awareness (CA) and reading comprehension (RC), and explore the mediating effect of listening comprehension (LC) in Chinese blind students from elementary school. A total of 148 blind and 302 sighted elementary school students completed assessments of PA, HA, CA, LC and RC. The results found that PA, HA and CA were important variables that predicted Chinese blind and sighted students' RC not only directly but also indirectly through LC, which varied across different grades. The findings suggest that there were many similarities that exist in the influencing mechanism of RC between Chinese blind and sighted students.
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