幼儿的英语语音意识发展特点及内隐学习的研究

本研究以87名4-6岁初学英语的幼儿为被试，探讨初学英语儿童在音节意识、首音韵脚意识和音位意识三方面语音意识的发展特点及这三个方面的内隐学习存在的可能性，并调查了这87名儿童的相关背景资料。结果发现，首音韵脚意识与音位意识的发展早于音节意识的发展，三个方面都随年级的增长而提高，首音韵脚意识和音位意识的测验成绩在学过和未学过的两类材料上均超过了机遇水平且无显著差异，表明内隐学习存在于汉语儿童英语语音意识形成的过程中，并且性别在这三方面并无显著差异。在儿童的背景资料中，儿童讲英语的主动程度这一因素对儿童的语音意识具有显著的影响。

Study on the Development of English Phonological Awareness of Chinese Children Aged 4-6 and Implicit Learning

Using 87 children aged 4-6 who learn English at the beginning in the kindergarten as subjects, the study discusses the development of English phonological awareness of Chinese children who learn English at the beginning and implicit learning existing in the three ways of syllable awareness, onset-rhyme awareness and phoneme awareness,and inquires the correlation background data of the 87 children.Results indicates that,onset-rhyme and phoneme awareness developed earlier than syllable awareness and they increase along with grade rising;The exam results of onset-rhyme and phoneme awareness on the learned and unlearned material both significantly exceeded the chance level,as well as they were not significantly different,which indicates that implicit learning existes in the course of English phonological awareness of Chinese children;The three ways are all not significantly different in the sex;In the background data of the children,the degree that the children speak English actively have significant influence on the phonological awareness of Chinese children.