Chinese idiom is an important part of children's lan-guage development and generally exists in spoken and written language.The synthesis of previous stud-ies shows that idiom familiarity,semantic decomposi-tion,and context play an important role in the pro-cessing of idiom comprehension,but the specific mental processing mechanism is not clear.Based on the Global Elaboration Model and Dynamic Interplay Theory,this article proposes a Dynamic Processing Mechanism Model for Chinese idiom comprehension,then summarizes the idiom developmental stages.Meanwhile,the corresponding research directions are also discussed.
idiom comprehensionmetalin-guistic awarenessreading comprehensionidiom development