How do the component skills affect Chinese FL reading comprehension? A study based on ridge regression analysis

Chinese as a Second Language Research Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI:10.1515/caslar-2023-0003

Kai Zhong, L. Wong, M. Yong, Boon Sim Ng

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Abstract

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the effect of reading components (including Chinese character knowledge, morphological knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, grammar knowledge, and lexical inference) on the reading comprehension of 44 Malaysian child learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). Measures of Chinese character knowledge, morphological knowledge, receptive vocabulary, vocabulary synonym, lexical inference, word order, grammatical judgment, and reading comprehension were used. Drawing upon ridge regression, the study found that grammar knowledge (measured by word order and grammatical judgment) had the largest effect on reading comprehension, followed by morphological knowledge and vocabulary knowledge (measured by receptive vocabulary and vocabulary synonym). Lexical inference and Chinese character knowledge had the least effects on reading comprehension. The findings of the study are discussed with pedagogical implications and future research suggestions.

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组成部分技能如何影响语文阅读理解？基于岭回归分析的研究

摘要本研究旨在探讨阅读成分（包括汉字知识、形态知识、词汇知识、语法知识和词汇推理）对44名马来西亚儿童外语学习者阅读理解的影响。使用了汉字知识、形态知识、接受性词汇、同义词、词汇推理、语序、语法判断和阅读理解的测量。根据岭回归，研究发现语法知识（以语序和语法判断衡量）对阅读理解的影响最大，其次是形态知识和词汇知识（以接受性词汇和词汇同义词衡量）。词汇推理和汉字知识对阅读理解的影响最小。对研究结果进行了讨论，并提出了教学启示和未来的研究建议。

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Chinese as a Second Language Research Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR) focuses on research on the acquisition, development, and use of Chinese as a Second Language. It supports scholars and researchers from different linguistic fields, and serves as a forum to discuss, investigate, and better understand Chinese as a Second Language. Each issue (2 per year) of the journal publishes three papers in Chinese and three papers in English; summaries are always provided both in Chinese and English. We are especially interested in publishing articles and research papers that investigate how empirical findings of CSL research can advance and develop better Chinese language teaching methodologies, explore the implications of CSL research for theoretical developments and practical applications, focus on the acquisition and use of varieties of CSL, study the nature of interaction between native speakers and non-native speakers of Chinese, address major issues of second language acquisition from the perspective of CSL, analyze the ways in which language is both shaped by culture and is the medium through which culture is created.