Syllable awareness plays an important role in Chinese reading activities. This paper reviews the research on the deficits of syllable awareness in children with developmental reading disorders in China over the past 20 years, analyzes the ways of measuring and evaluating syllable awareness, and different research methods in studies of children with developmental reading disorders. Finally, it discusses the limitations of research on the deficits of syllable awareness in children with developmental reading disorders and the future development direction of the research, in order to further verify and enrich related intervention studies.

Yangke Yue, Rongjian Mao.An analysis of the current status of morpheme awareness inchildren with developmental dyslexia. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 3: 7-12. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070302.

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