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Reading comprehension and metalinguistic knowledge in Chinese readers: a meta-analysis

Reading comprehension and metalinguistic knowledge in Chinese readers: a meta-analysis
Reading comprehension and metalinguistic knowledge in Chinese readers: a meta-analysis
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.
meta-analysis, metalinguistic knowledge, morphological awareness, phonological awareness, reading comprehension
1664-1078
Dong, Yang
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Peng, Shuna
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Sun, Yuanke
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Wu, Sammy Xiaoying
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Wang, Weisha
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Sun, Yuanke
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Wang, Weisha
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Dong, Yang, Peng, Shuna, Sun, Yuanke, Wu, Sammy Xiaoying and Wang, Weisha (2020) Reading comprehension and metalinguistic knowledge in Chinese readers: a meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, [3037]. (doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03037).

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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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Accepted/In Press date: 23 December 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 February 2020
Published date: 5 February 2020
Additional Information: Copyright © 2020 Dong, Peng, Sun, Wu and Wang.
Keywords: meta-analysis, metalinguistic knowledge, morphological awareness, phonological awareness, reading comprehension

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Local EPrints ID: 436823
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/436823
ISSN: 1664-1078
PURE UUID: 03146bf2-10d1-41a3-b7e1-5452152d0d6f
ORCID for Weisha Wang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-3416

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Date deposited: 10 Jan 2020 17:33
Last modified: 05 Jun 2024 17:31

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Author: Yang Dong
Author: Shuna Peng
Author: Yuanke Sun
Author: Sammy Xiaoying Wu
Author: Weisha Wang ORCID iD

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