Development Of Children's Morphological Awareness, Early Childhood Reading

The study of children's morphological awareness, began in the late 50th century, mainly based on alphabetic language. How do children develop Chinese morphological awareness? Reading as a basic learning and life skills, has been the focus of the study. In recent years, the relationship between morphological awareness of children and reading ability has become hot, but most of them are English language children, what are the development of morphological awareness in Chinese children and its relationship to early reading ability? Does sharing reading education as an effective method of early reading education affect children morphological awareness and reading ability? This paper will explore these issues for kindergarteners and primary school students from first, second, third grade, including the following three studies:Research one investigates the developmental features of morphological awareness in Chinese children. The results showed that kindergarteners had begun to develop morphological awareness; Children had the highest scores on the recognizing morphemes test, the ability to recognize morphemes developed earliest. Children in middle class of kindergarten could recognize morphemes; The ability to identify morphemes developed later than the ability to recognize morphemes, which had a critical period to develop for children in second and third grade; The ability to distinguish morphemes showed differences between three grades, which increased with the grade. The time in primary school is a critical period to develop ability to distinguish morphemes for children; Children in third grade performed significantly better than children in first and second grade on the test of explaining the morphemes. Third grade is the critical period for children to develop the ability of explaining the morphemes; morphological awareness of children increased with grade.Research two focuses on the relationship between the development of morphological awareness and early reading ability. The results showed that children's vocabulary comprehension increase with the grade, in addition to the difference between big class of kindergarten and first grade children which was no significant, the differences between other grades were significant; The primary children's reading understanding increased with grade; The correlation between recognizing morphemes, identifying morphemes, distinguishing morphemes, explaining morphemes, vocabulary comprehension and reading understanding showed significant. The ability of distinguishing morphemes and vocabulary comprehension had the highest correlation with vocabulary comprehension and reading understanding. The ability of explaining morphemes showed the lowest correlation with vocabulary comprehension and reading understanding; Children's morphological awareness in first grade showed significant correlation with vocabulary comprehension and reading understanding. Children's morphological awareness showed lower correlation with vocabulary comprehension and reading understanding with grade. Morphological awareness can predict the development of vocabulary comprehension; Children's reading ability can be better predicted by morphological awareness than the vocabulary comprehension. Morphological awareness had more important impact on reading ability than vocabulary comprehension, and the lower grade, the more significant predictable.Research three takes sharing reading education for example, indicating that early education for pre-school children has impact on the development of morphological awareness and reading ability. The results showed that, for the middle class of kindergarten, sharing reading education improved children's morphological awareness, vocabulary comprehension and reading understanding. For big class of kindergarten, the sharing reading education had more important impact on children's reading understanding; children who participated in sharing reading and children who did not participate in sharing reading showed significant differences in identifying morphemes, vocabulary comprehension and reading understanding, which further detailed that sharing reading education could promote the development of children's morphological awareness and reading ability. Educators should strengthen pre-school children's early reading education.