Pinyin : an important factor in learning English

摘要: Extensive research in the fields of reading and 8. linguistics has shown that metalinguistic skill segmenting speech stream into discrete units sound called phdnemes is crucial to development spelling skills an alphabetic writing system. To investigate whether speakers whose first language represe6ted by a logographic script who are enrolled advanced levels dE ~ n l i s h as Second Language classes have 6 acquired phonemic segmentation, native English from Canada nonnative People's ~epublic China Hong Kong participated phoneme counting task. Subjects Republic had literacy since they learned Pinyin prior learning read Chinese characters. 2 representation Roman characters transitional alphabet used training. People'sRepublic with were expected outperform subjects nonalphabetic literacy. As anticipated, Canadian outperformed both groups. More importantly,