Abstract
Phonological awareness is one of the critical skills in the acquisition of reading in an alphabetic orthography. The development of phonological awareness was compared across Turkish and English-speaking kindergarten and first-grade children (n = 138). The Turkish-speakers were more proficient in both handling of the syllables and deleting final phonemes of words. These patterns were related to the characteristics of the respective spoken languages (such as the saliency of the syllable, familiarity of the nonword patterns, importance of onset or final phoneme deletion, importance of vowel harmony) and the development of phonological awareness was discussed as a function of the characteristics of spoken language, orthography and literacy instruction.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 281-299 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Reading and Writing |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1999 |
Keywords
- Characteristics of spoken language
- Cross-linguistic
- English
- Literacy
- Phonological awareness
- Turkish
- Word recognition