by Pun Shiu Kau. / Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Bibliography: leaves 92-98. / LIST OF TABLES --- p.i / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.iii / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- THE PROBLEM --- p.1 / Background --- p.1 / Purpose of the Study --- p.3 / Significance of the Study --- p.3 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- REVIEW OF LITERATURE --- p.4 / Cognition and Metacognition --- p.4 / Metalinguistic Awareness --- p.5 / Linguistic and metalinguistic awareness --- p.5 / Types of metalinguistic awareness --- p.6 / Metalinguistic awareness of cognitive development --- p.7 / Awareness in Speech Segmentation --- p.10 / Segmentation of speech sound --- p.10 / Development of segmental abilities --- p.11 / Perception of Speech Sounds --- p.14 / Acoustic-phonetic relationship --- p.14 / Perception of vowels --- p.15 / Perception of consonants --- p.15 / Categorical perception --- p.19 / Perceptual unit in speech perception --- p.20 / Perception of Written Language --- p.23 / Comparison between listening and speaking --- p.23 / Perceptual unit in reading --- p.24 / Writing Systems --- p.28 / Variety and universality of writing systems --- p.28 / Psychological characterization of orthographies --- p.30 / The psychology of reading Chinese --- p.35 / Phonemic Segmental Awareness and Reading Acquisition --- p.39 / Phenemic segmental awareness in relation to reading acquisition --- p.39 / Effect of phonemic segmental awareness on reading acquisition --- p.43 / Effect of literacy on phonemic segmental awareness --- p.45 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- METHOD --- p.47 / Hypothesis --- p.47 / Subjects --- p.48 / Instruments --- p.49 / Research Design --- p.54 / Procedure --- p.59 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- RESULTS --- p.62 / Academic Results --- p.62 / Intelligence --- p.64 / English Spelling-sound Proficiency --- p.64 / Chinese Task 1 ： Classifying Character Sounds --- p.65 / Chinese Task 2 ： Fanqie - Manipulation of Chinese Phonemes --- p.67 / Relations between Intelligence and Phonemic Segmental Awareness --- p.70 / Relations between English Spelling-sound Proficiency and Academic Results --- p.71 / Relations between Chinese Phonemic Awareness and Academic Results --- p.73 / Relations between English Spelling-sound Proficiency and Chinese Phonemic Awareness --- p.74 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- "DISCUSSION, SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION" --- p.79 / Discussion --- p.79 / "Academic results, sex, intelligence and phonemic awareness" --- p.79 / Proficiency in English spelling-sound rules --- p.80 / Chinese phonemic segmental awareness --- p.81 / Relations between proficiency in English spelling-sound rules and academic results --- p.83 / Relations between Chinese phonemic segmental awareness and proficiency in English spelling-sound rules --- p.84 / Summary --- p.88 / Conclusion --- p.90 / REFERENCES --- p.92 / APPENDICES --- p.99
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_318599 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Contributors | Pun, Shiu Kau., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Education. |
| Publisher | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | print, iii, 115 leaves ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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