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July 28, 2026Foreign Language AnnalsOpen Access

Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners

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YWYu Ka WongDZDongbo Zhang

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Longitudinal study examines syntactic awareness's role in reading and writing among young Chinese L2 learners, indicating its importance in literacy instruction.

Key Points

  • This study aims to explore how syntactic awareness mediates the relationship between reading and writing in young Chinese L2 learners.
  • Longitudinal assessment of 177 students annually from Grades 4 to 6.
  • Evaluation of word-level literacy (character reading, spelling) and sentence-level literacy (sentence reading, writing).
  • Utilization of path analyses to compare baseline and mediation models across linguistic levels.
  • At the word level, significant bidirectional links found between character reading and spelling (p<0.05).
  • At the sentence level, syntactic awareness significantly mediated the relationship between reading and writing; direct effects became nonsignificant, indirect effects were significant.
  • Syntactic awareness displayed a stable trajectory but was influenced by reading and writing, particularly by sentence writing.

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Wong et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6851062845b684d16f03e1https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.70073
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