SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2019
Reading Comprehension and Metalinguistic Knowledge in Chinese Readers: A Meta-Analysis.
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- Contribution of Vocabulary Knowledge to Reading Comprehension Among Chinese Students: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
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- Morphological awareness shows a more robust unique association with reading comprehension than phonological awareness in Chinese children in Grades 3-5.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Analyzing Qualitative Changes in Metalinguistic Processing in Typically Developing 5- to 7-Year-Old Children.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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- The Extended Simple View of Reading in Adult Learners of Chinese as a Second Language.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Lexical Orthographic Knowledge Mediates the Relationship Between Character Reading and Reading Comprehension Among Learners With Chinese as a Second Language.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Development and Evaluation of Orthographic Knowledge Awareness Scale for Children Aged 6-12 Years.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Language-Related Skills in Bilingual Children With Specific Learning Disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Metalinguistic knowledge has a facilitative effect on reading comprehension. This meta-analysis examined the relationship between metalinguistic knowledge and reading comprehension among Chinese students. By focusing on both Chinese and English scripts' reading comprehension performance, this study synthesized 46 studies with 73 independent samples that represented 10,793 Chinese students from primary school to university levels. We found that in both Chinese and English scripts' reading, morphological awareness had the strongest correlation with reading comprehension, whereas both phonological awareness and orthographical skill had a similar medium correlation with reading comprehension. All three metalinguistic knowledge, which was not significantly influenced by the selected moderators of grade group, area, language type, and assessment, had an independent correlation with reading comprehension. The results suggested that reading stages did not significantly impact the function of metalinguistic knowledge on both Chinese and English scripts' reading comprehension for Chinese students. In addition, for Chinese students, morphological awareness plays a more important role than phonological awareness and orthographical skill in both Chinese and English scripts' reading comprehension.
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