Learning to read and spell: The relative role of phonemic awareness and onset-rime awareness

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Title:	Learning to read and spell: The relative role of phonemic awareness and onset-rime awareness
Authors:	I-Chih Chan Chieh-Fang Hu I-Ping Wan 胡潔芳萬依萍
Contributors:	臺北市立教育大學英語教學系
Date:	2005
Issue Date:	2009-07-07 11:23:31 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	It has been assumed that Chinese-speaking children do not have phonemic awareness. This study investigated phonemic awareness of Chinese-speaking children in tandem with onset-rime awareness and their relative roles in learning to read and spell English. The participants were 29 fourth graders with better onset-rime and phonemic awareness, 29 with better onset-rime but poorer phonemic awareness, and 26 with poorer onset-rime and phonemic awareness. The children first took a criterion learning of letter-sound correspondences task and were then tested on their abilities to spell and read English pseudowords. The results showed that most children were able to detect segmental components in a falling diphthong or a VN rime, indicating phonemes were constituents in their phonological awareness. Children with better onset-rime and phonemic awareness performed better in English pseudoword spelling than children with better onset-rime but poorer phonemic awareness, who in turn, performed better than children with poorer onset-rime and phonemic awareness. Similar patterns were observed for pseudoword reading, only that the effect of onset-rime awareness was less conclusive. These findings underscore the role of phonemic awareness in the acquisition of EFL reading and spelling for Chinese-speaking children.
Relation:	臺灣語言學期刊 (Taiwan Journal of Linguistics),3卷1期, p.65-100
Appears in Collections:	[Department of English Instruction] Periodical Articles

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