- Title
- The development of phonological awareness and letter knowledge in young New Zealand children
- Creator
- Arrow, Alison; McLachlan, Claire
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/170803
- Identifier
- vital:14205
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1179/2050572813Y.0000000023
- Identifier
- ISBN:205-0571X
- Abstract
- The predictive nature of phonological awareness for the development of literacy skills has been replicated frequently. While the conclusions of these studies have been overwhelmingly supportive of phonological awareness being important for early literacy, there has been less groundswell in terms of its application, particularly in early childhood settings. This paper examines the nature of phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and own name knowledge in a sample of 98 New Zealand children, aged between 3 and 5 years. It examines the development of emergent literacy skills over a 3-month period, with assessments carried out at the start of that time and the end. The nature of the relationships between the emergent literacy skills of phonological awareness, letter name knowledge, and own name knowledge was also examined. A developmental pattern from own name spelling ability to letter knowledge to initial phoneme awareness was found. Support for the lexical restructuring hypothesis was also found with the relationship between vocabulary and rime awareness. Rime awareness and initial phoneme awareness also appeared to be different forms of phonological awareness, with a lack of correlation between them. © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014.
- Publisher
- Maney Publishing
- Relation
- Speech, Language and Hearing Vol. 17, no. 1 (2014), p. 49-57
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor and Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Early childhood; Initial phoneme awareness; Letter knowledge; Own name knowledge; Rime awareness; 1702 Cognitive Sciences; 2004 Linguistics
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