文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Cross-linguistic sharing of phonological awareness in word spelling among early Chinese-English literacy learners: A three-wave cross-lagged panel analysis

作者：Lin, Jiexin[1,2];Li, Jiayun[3]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Foreign Languages, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]East China Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Shanghai, Peoples R China;[3]Nanjing Univ, Sch Foreign Studies, Nanjing, Peoples R China

年份：2025

卷号：120

外文期刊名：LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:001482193800001)】；

基金：We thank the teachers, children, and parents for their participation in this study. We also extend our gratitude to the editors and two anonymous reviewers. This research was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. JKS02242208, and the Shanghai Planning Project of Philosophy and Social Science under Grant No. 2024EYY007.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Segmental phonological awareness; Suprasegmental phonological awareness; Word spelling; Bilinguals; Longitudinal

摘要：This study examines the longitudinal cross-linguistic associations of phonological awareness (PA) at suprasegmental and segmental levels with word spelling in Chinese and English. An initial sample of 161 Chinese-English bilingual children was followed up every six months from the end of grade 3 to the end of grade 4. Cross-lagged panel models revealed reciprocal cross-linguistic relations between segmental PA and word spelling in both languages from the end of grade 3 to halfway grade 4. However, this reciprocity in the L1 (Chinese)-to-L2 (English) direction was observed only for English pseudoword spelling, not real word spelling. By the end of grade 4, this reciprocity vanished, leaving only a unidirectional prediction from Chinese segmental PA to English pseudoword spelling, which also extended to English real word spelling. The findings illustrate dynamically changing cross-linguistic relations between PA and bilingual word spelling and underscore segmental PA as a shared linguistic resource in bilingual spelling development. Educational relevance statement: Recent advances in Chinese-English bilingual children's biliteracy acquisition have implicated an important role of suprasegmental phonological awareness, in addition to segmental features, in biliteracy acquisition. This study explores the bidirectional cross-linguistic influence of phonological awareness (PA) at both suprasegmental and segmental levels on word spelling development in Chinese-English bilingual children. Results indicate a bi-directional cross-linguistic transfer of PA and complex developmental interplay between PA and word spelling, together with a consistent grain size effect of segmental PA in predicting bilingual word spelling. It sheds light on the biliteracy theoretical accounts from a developmental lens and informs specifics and universals of phonology in relation to cross-linguistic gains of spelling. It also provides pedagogical implications for bilingual spelling instruction for Chinese-English literacy learners.