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- Title
Phonological Awareness in Typical Children Speaking English.
- Authors
Jacob, Jiya Annu; Kumaraswamy, Sathish
- Abstract
Phonological awareness is an individual awareness to the sound structure or phonological structure of a spoken word in contrast to written word. Phonological awareness to be examined in the broader scope of phonology because we find that long before a child become aware of the phonological structure of words, he or she has specialised phonological knowledge. The purpose of the study is to describe the phonological awareness in 3-7 years old typical children speaking English. Twenty typical children speaking English were randomly picked up from various schools in Kerala in the range of 3-7 years. Three subtests syllable blending, phoneme blending, rhyme from the Phonological Awareness Test was adapted with modification to suit Indian population was used as stimuli. Statistical analysis revealed high significant difference across age groups for all the subtests.
- Subjects
PHONOLOGICAL awareness; ENGLISH language education; WORD formation (Grammar); PHONOLOGICAL decoding; LANGUAGE acquisition
- Publication
Language in India, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 6, p194
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article