雙語學童中、英文閱讀理解與寫作能力之相關性探討

摘要

While research in reading-writing relationship betweenL1 and L2 has been fruitful, there are relatively fewstudies which examined the data from youngChinese/English bilingual children. This studyinvestigated the relationship between the first languageand second language reading and between firstlanguage and second language writing. In addition, therelationship between reading-writing in L1 andbetween reading-writing in L2 were examined. A totalof 196 Chinese-English bilingual children (101 5thgraders and 95 6th graders) participated in this study.Two standardized tests were selected to evaluateEnglish/Chinese reading and writing skills: Iowa Testsof Basic Skills (ITBS) and Chinese Writing Test(CWT). The results provided support for bothlinguistic interdependence hypothesis and linguisticthreshold hypothesis.