조선족 아동과 한족 아동의 음운인식능력과 모국어 읽기에 관한 연구

A Study on the Ability of Phonological Awareness and Word Reading in Korean-Chinese and Chinese Children

The purpose of this study was to analyze the development of phonological awareness and the relationship between the ability of phonological awareness and reading in well- balanced bilingual Korean-Chinese and monolingual Chinese children. In this study, we used phonological awareness tasks and Hangul, Hanja word reading tasks which were used in Hong’s experiment (2004) for Korean children. It was found that the difference of the ability of phonological awareness did not depend on the rationality but on the age and the task. Among 6 year olds, not only the awareness of word and syllable but also the awareness of phoneme were well developed but among 5 year olds, the awareness of phoneme was very poor. In Korean-Chinese, 6 year olds’ performance of reading tasks was almost at the ceiling level but that of 5 year olds’ was very poor. But in Chinese children the performance of reading tasks was very poor in both ages. And the correlation between the phonological awareness and reading was significant only among 5 year old Korean-Chinese children. Results were discussed in terms of environmental factors which influence the development of phonological awareness and the level of phonological awareness in children.