Does Training in Phonological Awareness Work for Everybody?
There is no doubt that children’s phonological awareness (i.e., their sensitivity to the phonological structure of the words in their language) is significantly related to the children’s acquisition of literacy (cf. Goswami & Bryant, 1990; Wagner & Torgesen, 1987). However, the causal relationship between early phonological awareness and subsequent reading and spelling has been controversial (cf. Bradley & Bryant, 1985; Lundberg & Hoien, 1991; Morais, 1991). Training studies of phonological awareness seem especially suited to exploring the causality issue. Meanwhile, researchers in various countries have been successful in teaching young children particular aspects of phonological awareness such as rhyming skills, syllable segmentation, and phoneme analysis and…
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