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Phonemic awareness of English second language learners
Author(s) -
Maria Le Roux,
Salomé Geertsema,
Heila Jordaan,
Danie Prinsloo
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
south african journal of communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.296
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2225-4765
pISSN - 0379-8046
DOI - 10.4102/sajcd.v64i1.164
Subject(s) - literacy , phonological awareness , psychology , test (biology) , curriculum , perception , intervention (counseling) , phonemic awareness , vowel , mathematics education , linguistics , pedagogy , paleontology , philosophy , neuroscience , psychiatry , biology
The PA skills of phonological blending and segmentation and auditory word discrimination relate directly to literacy and may be weak in English second language (EL2) learners. In South Africa, literacy skills have been found to be poor in especially EL2 learners.

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