双语少数民族儿童和单语同龄人的词汇,阅读和拼写技能之间的关系
Giulia Vettori1, Oriana Incognito1, Lucia Bigozzi1
1Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Frontiers in psychology
|August 28, 2023
概括
作为第二语言学习意大利语的双语少数民族 (BLM) 儿童比单语同龄人表现出较低的词汇,阅读和拼写技能. 然而,这些技能之间的预测关系在两组中保持一致,突出了正写准确性.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学是发展心理学.
- 教育心理学教育心理学
- 语言学的语言学.
背景情况:
- 小学教室越来越多地包括双语少数民族语言 (BLM) 儿童,他们的第一语言不同 (L1).
- 了解这些孩子的词汇,阅读和拼写技能的发展和相互关系对于有效的教育策略至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 研究意大利小学儿童的词汇,阅读和拼写技能的发展模式.
- 检查双语少数语言 (BLM) 和单语儿童中这些技能之间的预测关系.
- 为了比较跨语言群体的技能发展和相互关系.
主要方法:
- 一项涉及159名小学儿童 (2-5年级) 的研究,其中包括80名BLM儿童和79名单语意大利语 (7-11岁) 学生.
- 参与者完成了评估词汇 (词汇技能),阅读准确度和速度以及拼写 (拼写错误) 的任务.
- 统计分析包括ANOVA用于组比较和层次回归来探索预测关系.
主要成果:
- 双语少数语言 (BLM) 儿童在词汇,阅读和拼写技能方面的表现较低,与单语同龄人相比.
- 在控制词汇能力时,部分相关性表明了两组词汇,阅读和拼写技能之间的显著相互关系.
- 层次回归分析揭示了两组预测关系的一致模式.
结论:
- 拼写准确性在阅读和词汇技能的发展中起着关键作用,形成了跨语言群体的共同基础.
- 尽管整体表现较低,但技能发展和预测的基本结构对于双语语言少数民族和单语儿童来说是相似的.
- 这些发现对定制的教育干预措施有影响,支持在多种类型的教室中获得语言和识字能力.
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