Baoqi Sun|Guangwei Hu|Xiao Lan Curdt?Christiansen
Metalinguistic contribution to writing competence: a study of monolingual children in China and bilingual children in Singapore
Nanyang Technological University|Hong Kong Polytechnic University|University of Bath
study investigated concurrent contributions three components metalinguistic awareness ie phonological awareness morphological awareness syntactic awareness writing competence primary three englishchinese bilingual children singapore n 390 monolingual chinesespeaking children mainland china n 190 hierarchical regression analyses found three components metalinguistic awareness differed contributions writing competence across languages two groups children morphological awareness syntactic awareness explaining markedly variance phonological awareness furthermore sem results revealed robust crosslinguistic association english chinese metalinguistic awareness bilingual children appeared jointly undergird support writing competence languages finally home language use significantly predicted bilingual childrens english metalinguistic awareness also writing performance chinese findings lend support cumminss common underlying proficiency developmental interdependence hypotheses underscore importance language context formal instruction language features childrens literacy development