A study on written language learning in infancy, phonological awareness and the alphabetizer’s linguistic background

 The aim of the study is to investigate the importance of phonological awareness in writing learning in infancy and the role of the alphabetizer. Four groups in the 1st grade of Elementary School from a city in Piauí (Brazil) participated in the study. Teachers of two of these gr...

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Autores: Ramos, Norma Suely Campos, Scherer, Lilian Cristine
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Letras de Hoje (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/12691
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fale/article/view/12691
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Writing acquisition
Phonological awareness
Alphabetizers’ linguistic formation
Aquisição da escrita
Consciência fonológica
Formação linguística do alfabetizador
Linguística
Letras e Artes
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Sumario: The aim of the study is to investigate the importance of phonological awareness in writing learning in infancy and the role of the alphabetizer. Four groups in the 1st grade of Elementary School from a city in Piauí (Brazil) participated in the study. Teachers of two of these groups received linguistic formation, as to ensure their pedagogical intervention with phonological awareness raising and explicit alphabetic principle activities (experimental group – EG), while teachers of the other two groups did not receive this formation (control group – CG). A total of twenty-three children were selected – 12 in the experimental group, 11 in the control group. Writing samples were collected in April, June and December, immediately followed by the collection of phonological awareness samples. Results show that in December almost the totality of children in the EG had reached the alphabetical hypothesis (Level 5), while only 18% in the CG had reached this level. As a conclusion, it can be stated that the alphabetizer’s linguistic formation is crucial and that phonological awareness raising activities foster the writing system acquisition.