This is an academic monograph studying children's language acquisition. Based on the theories and studies on morpheme characterization and processing as well as the latest findings on the occurrence and development of children's morpheme consciousness, this book makes detailed explorations and discussions in terms of the various aspects of pre-school pupils and elementary school students' Chinese morpheme awareness, and the relationship between children's morpheme awareness development and their Chinese language and reading development. Morpheme awareness shows a bilateral relationship with vocabulary and reading development in this book. Meanwhile, it makes some suggestions on how to develop children's morpheme awareness based on the research findings.  

Hao Meiling, born in 1976, got her PhD degree in Education from the School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University in 2003 and has been working at the College of Advanced Chinese Training, Beijing Language and Culture University ever since then. Her research areas include children and international students' language acquisition and cognition procession. She published a number of papers in core journals such as Journal of Child Language, Applied Psycholinguistics, Chinese Teaching in the World and Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies.