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AWARENESS OF PHONEMES AND ALPHABETIC LITERACY ACQUISITION
Author(s) -
CARDOSOMARTINS CLAUDIA
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1991.tb00972.x
Subject(s) - syllabic verse , orthography , psychology , learning to read , phonological awareness , literacy , portuguese , reading (process) , phonemic awareness , linguistics , developmental psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , philosophy
S ummary . The present study investigates the relationship between phonemic awareness and Portuguese orthography acquisition. Two groups of low socio‐economic Brazilian children participated. The first group consisted of 32 children learning to read through a phonic method. The second consisted of 26 children learning to read through a syllabic method. Phonemic awareness was measured at the beginning of the school year, coinciding with the beginning of instruction in reading. Progress in literacy acquisition was measured either at the end, or at the middle and the end of the school year. The results of the present study confirm the results of previous investigations. In general, awareness of phonemes was related to progress in learning to read and write. However, the results of the present study suggest that variations in phonemic awareness, observed at the beginning of literacy acquisition, may be less important for Portuguese orthography acquisition when children learn to read through a syllabic method than when they learn to read through a phonic method.