The purpose of this study is to identify factors in the home literacy environment using the Stony Brook Family Reading Survey (SBFRS) in order to understand the extent to which these factors predict phonemic awareness and other basic reading skills, as assessed by selected subtests from the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ III). The present study used archival data to examine the home literacy habits of a sample of parents and preschool children ages 3-5 years (range in months= 36-67) from a private and a public preschool with a combination of high- and low-income backgrounds and various ethnicities. Using exploratory factor analyses with 165 participants, three dimensions of family reading behavior were identified from the SBFRS including Home Reading Emphasis, Adult Responsibility, and Parental Academic Expectations. Each of the SBFRS rotated factors considered together in a stepwise multiple regression analysis contributed significantly over and above age to the prediction of phonological awareness as measured by the Phonemic Awareness 3 (PA3) Cluster from the WJ III. The best order of predictors for PA3 of the WJ III, with stepwise entry, included Factor 1: Home Reading Emphasis, Factor 3: Parental Academic Expectations, and Factor 2: Adult Responsibility. One of the SBFRS rotated factors, Factor 1: Home Reading Emphasis, considered in a stepwise multiple regression analysis using age as a covariate contributed significantly to the prediction of basic reading as measured by the Basic Reading Skills (BRS) Cluster of the WJ III [WJ III BRS=.38+.26(Factor1)]. Results demonstrate the importance of the aforementioned factors in relation to the prediction of emergent literacy. Future studies are needed to investigate parental expectations, adult responsibility for child outcomes, the impact of fathers, and the importance of dominant home language on the emergence of literacy. Revision of the SBFRS, in addition to studies that include a wider range of SES, racial/ethnic, and linguistic groups, would help to standardize the measure for future use.

The present study is a small part of a project that is named Legilexi which includes a screening test where the purpose is to identify children who are at risk of having reading- and writing difficulties. The aim of the present study was primarily to investigate the relationship between phonological awareness and different reading abilities in children in year 1 and 3. A further aim was to contribute to the validation of Legilexi’s screening test. There were 48 children from four different schools that participated in the study, 29 of these children were in grade 1, and 19 were in grade 3. The students in first grade were in the ages of 7;0–8:1 years and the children in third grade were between the ages of 9;1 and 9;11 years. The recruitment of the schools was done in consultation with project managers of Legilexi. In this study the schools were selected throughout a convenience sample, because of Legilexi’s spread throughout the whole of Sweden. Phonological awareness was assessed with UMESOL’s phonological elements; phoneme segmentation, phoneme synthesis, position analysis and segment subtraction. The teachers tested the children with Legilexi ́s test material. The relations between the collected data were later examined together with secondary data from Legilexi. The results showed strong correlations between different aspects of phonological awareness, reading- and listening comprehension. However, ceiling effects were discovered in Legilexi’s subtest phoneme analysis in grade 1. This indicates that the design of the test was too simple for the participating children. The conclusion of the present study was that the results were in line with previous research regarding phonological awareness and early reading development. An important and useful finding was the ceiling effect on Legilexi’s test of phonological awareness

The purpose of this report is to inform foreign language (FL) educators about students with learning disabilities (LD) so that instruction can better serve their needs. It applies this to Spanish FL education in the United States, examining reading performance due to the role of reading in academic success and the prevalence of reading LD. The report outlines reading models and the cognitive processes within these approaches to explain how students read. With this understanding, the report examines LD, focusing on the role of phonemic awareness in L1 and FL reading. It analyzes reading instruction in English and Spanish in order to evaluate existing FL strategies and propose new interventions. From this report, educators should gain an understanding of how LD in reading impacts FL and how reading could be better addressed in the Spanish FL classroom. / text

Children with Down syndrome (DS) are reported to experience difficulty with spoken and written language which can persist through the lifespan. However, little is known about the spoken and written language profiles of children with DS in the New Zealand social and education environment, and a thorough investigation of these profiles has yet to be conducted. The few controlled interventions to remediate language deficits in children with DS that are reported in the literature typically focus on remediation of a single language domain, with the effectiveness of interventions which integrate spoken and written language goals yet to be explored for this population. The experiments reported in this thesis aim to address these areas of need. The following questions are asked 1) What are the phonological awareness, speech, language and literacy skills of New Zealand children with DS? 2) What are the home and school literacy environments of New Zealand children with DS and how do they support written language development? and 3) What are the immediate and longer term effects of an integrated phonological awareness intervention on enhancing aspects of spoken and written language development in young children with DS? These questions will be addressed through the following chapters. The first experiment (presented in Chapter 2) was conducted in two parts. Part 1 consisted of the screening of the early developing phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and decoding skills of 77 primary school children with DS and revealed considerable variability between participants on all measures. Although some children were able to demonstrate mastery of the phoneme identity and letter knowledge skills, floor effects were also apparent. Data were analysed by age group (5 - 8 years and 9 -14 years) which revealed increased performance with maturation, with older children outperforming their younger peers on all measures. Approximately one quarter of all children were unable to decode any words, 6.6% demonstrated decoding skills at a level expected for 7 - 8 year old children and one child demonstrated decoding skills at an age equivalent level. Significant relationships between decoding skills and letter knowledge were found to exist. In Part 2 of the experiment, 27 children with DS who participated in the screening study took part in an in-depth investigation into their speech, phonological awareness, reading accuracy and comprehension and narrative language skills. Results of the speech assessments revealed the participants’ speech was qualitatively and quantitatively similar to the speech of younger children with typical development, but that elements of disorder were also evident. Results of the phonological awareness measures indicated participants were more successful with blending than with segmentation at both sentence and syllable level. Rhyme generation scores were particularly low. Reading accuracy scores were in advance of reading comprehension, with strong relationships demonstrated between reading accuracy and phonological awareness and letter knowledge. Those children who were better readers also had better language skills, producing longer sentences and using a greater number of different words in their narratives. The production of more advanced narrative structures was restricted to better readers. In the second experiment (presented in Chapter 3), the home literacy environment of 85 primary school aged children with DS was investigated. Parents of participants completed a questionnaire which explored the frequency and duration of literacy interactions, other ways parents support and facilitate literacy, parents’ priorities for their children at school, and the child’s literacy skills. Results revealed that the homes of participants were generally rich in literacy resources, and that parents and children read together regularly, although many children were reported to take a passive role duding joint story reading. Many parents also reported actively teaching their child letter names and sounds and encouraging literacy development in other ways such as language games, computer use, television viewing and library access. Writing at home was much less frequent than reading, and the allocation of written homework was much less common than reading homework. In the third experiment (presented in Chapter 4), the school literacy environment of 87 primary school aged children with DS (identified in the second experiment) was explored. In a parallel survey to the one described in Chapter 3, the teachers of participants completed a questionnaire which explored the frequency and duration of literacy interactions, the role of the child during literacy interactions, the child’s literacy skills, and other ways literacy is supported. The results of the questionnaire revealed nearly all children took part in regular reading instruction in the classroom although the amount of time reportedly dedicated to reading instruction was extremely variable amongst respondents. The average amount of time spent on reading instruction was consistent with that reported nationally and in advance of the international average for Year 5 children. Reading instruction was typically given in small groups or in a one on one setting and included both ‘top-down’ and bottom up’ strategies. Children were more likely to be assigned reading homework compared to written homework, with writing activities and instruction reported to be particularly challenging. In the fourth experiment (reported in Chapter 5), the effectiveness of an experimental integrated phonological awareness intervention was evaluated for ten children with DS, who ranged in age from 4;04 to 5;05 (M = 4;11, SD = 4.08 months). The study employed a multiple single-subject design to evaluate the effect of the intervention on participants’ trained and untrained speech measures, and examined the development of letter knowledge and phonological awareness skills. The 18 week intervention included the following three components; 1. parent implemented print referencing during joint story reading, 2. speech goals integrated with letter knowledge and phoneme awareness activities conducted by the speech-language therapist (SLT) in a play based format, and 3. letter knowledge and phoneme awareness activities conducted by the computer specialist (CS) adapted for presentation on a computer. The intervention was implemented by the SLT and CS at an early intervention centre during two 20 minute sessions per week, in two 6 week therapy blocks separated by a 6 week break (i.e. 8 hours total). The parents implemented the print referencing component in four 10 minute sessions per week across the 18 week intervention period (approximately 12 hours total). Results of the intervention revealed all ten children made statistically significant gains on their trained and untrained speech targets with some children demonstrating transfer to other phonemes in the same sound class. Six children demonstrated gains in letter knowledge and nine children achieved higher scores on phonological awareness measures at post-intervention, however all phonological awareness scores were below chance. The findings demonstrated that dedicating some intervention time to facilitating the participants’ letter knowledge and phonological awareness was not at the expense of speech gains. The fifth experiment (presented in Chapter 6) comprises a re-evaluation of the speech, phonological awareness, and letter knowledge, and an evaluation of the decoding and spelling development in children with DS who had previously participated in an integrated phonological awareness intervention (see Chapter 5), after they had subsequently received two terms (approximately 20 weeks) of formal schooling. Speech accuracy was higher at follow-up than at post-intervention on standardised speech measures and individual speech targets for the group as a whole, with eight of the ten participants demonstrating increased scores on their individual speech targets. Group scores on both letter knowledge measures were higher at follow-up than at post-intervention, with nine participants maintaining or improving on post-intervention performance. The majority of participants exhibited higher phonological awareness scores at follow-up on both the phoneme level assessments, with above chance scores achieved by five participants on one of the tasks, however, scores on the rhyme matching task demonstrated no evidence of growth. Some transfer of phonological awareness and letter knowledge was evident, with five children able to decode some words on the single word reading test and three children able to represent phonemes correctly in the experimental spelling task. The emergence of these early literacy skills highlighted the need for ongoing monitoring of children’s ability to transfer their improved phonological awareness and letter knowledge to decoding and spelling performance. In the sixth experiment (presented in Chapter 7) the long term effects of the integrated phonological awareness intervention was evaluated for one boy with DS aged 5;2 at the start of the intervention. The study monitored Ben’s speech and literacy development up to the age of 8;0 (34 months post pre-school intervention) which included two years of formal schooling. Ben demonstrated sustained growth on all measures with evidence of a growing ability to transfer letter-sound knowledge and phoneme-grapheme correspondences to the reading and spelling process. The results indicated an intervention which is provided early and which simultaneously targets speech, letter knowledge and phonological awareness goals provides a promising alternative to conventional therapy, and that integrating spoken and written therapy goals for children with DS can be effective in facilitating development in both domains. This thesis provides evidence that the spoken and written language abilities of New Zealand children with DS exhibit a pattern of delay and disorder that is largely consistent with those of children with DS from other countries reported in the literature. The home and school literacy environments of children in New Zealand with DS are rich in literacy resources and are, for the most part, supportive of their literacy development. The immediate and longer term results of the integrated phonological awareness intervention suggest that it is possible to achieve significant and sustained gains in speech, letter knowledge and phonological awareness which may contribute to the remediation of the persistent and compromised spoken and written language profile characteristic of individuals with DS.

Communication in a second or multiple languages has become essential in the globalized world. However, acquiring a second language (L2) after a critical period is universally acknowledged to be challenging (Lenneberg, 1967). Late learners hardly reach a nativelike level in L2, particularly in its pronunciation, and their incomplete phonological acquisition is manifested by a foreign accent—a common and persistent feature of otherwise fluent L2 speech. Although foreign-accented speech is widespread, it has been a target of social constraints in L2-speaking communities, causing many learners and instructors to seek out ways to reduce foreign accents. Accordingly, research in L2 speech has unceasingly examined various learner-external and learner-internal factors of the occurrence of foreign accents as well as nonnative speech characteristics underlying the judgment of the degree of foreign accents. The current study aimed to expand the understanding of the characteristics and judgments of foreign accents by investigating phonological awareness, a construct pertinent to learners’ phonological knowledge, which has received little attention in research on foreign accents. The current study was exploratory and non-experimental research that targeted 40 adults with Korean-accented English living in the United States. The study first examined how 23 raters speaking American English as their native language detect, perceive, describe, and rate Korean-accented English. Through qualitative and quantitative analyses of the accent perception data, the study identified various phonological and phonetic deviations from the nativelike sounds, which largely result from the influence of first language (Korean) on L2 (English). The study then probed the relationship between foreign accents and learners’ awareness of the phonological system of L2, which was measured using production, perception, and verbalization tasks that tapped into the knowledge of L2 phonology. The study found a significant inverse relationship between the degree of a foreign accent and phonological awareness, particularly implicit knowledge of L2 segmentals. Further in-depth analyses revealed that explicit knowledge of L2 phonology alone was not sufficient for targetlike pronunciation. Findings suggest that L2 speakers experience varying degrees of difficulty in perceiving and producing different L2 segmentals, possibly resulting in foreign-accented speech.

JUSTINO, M. I. S. V. Efeitos do reforço escolar numa abordagem fônica em alunos do ensino fundamental com graves defasagens na alfabetização. 2010. 156 p. Dissertação (Mestrado) Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto. Apesar das mudanças implantadas na política, currículo e metodologia educacional nos últimos dez anos, os resultados de avaliações do rendimento escolar dos alunos do ensino básico, em nível nacional e estadual, têm indicado sérios problemas no que se refere à aprendizagem das competências básicas de leitura e escrita. No contexto dessa problemática, o presente estudo buscou avaliar os efeitos de uma intervenção de reforço escolar, baseada no desenvolvimento da consciência fonológica e no ensino explícito da correspondência entre grafemas e fonemas, sobre a aprendizagem da leitura e escrita de um grupo de alunos do Ensino Fundamental ciclos I e II, com graves defasagens na alfabetização. Participaram do estudo 31 alunos, com idade entre 09 e 21 anos, de ambos os sexos, cursando da 4ª à 8ª série do Ensino Fundamental, de uma escola pública da periferia de Ribeirão Preto, em São Paulo. A pesquisa foi composta por quatro fases: inicialmente foi realizada uma avaliação diagnóstica coletiva das habilidades de leitura e escrita, com todos os alunos de 4ª a 8ª séries da referida escola. Aqueles apresentando dificuldades na alfabetização foram avaliados individualmente, no pré-teste, em provas de conhecimento de letras, consciência fonológica, leitura e escrita de palavras, sendo encaminhados para a intervenção 31 alunos com graves defasagens em termos de alfabetização. As atividades de reforço escolar foram desenvolvidas coletivamente, em duas aulas semanais, de duas horas cada, durante 10 meses. No final da intervenção foi realizado o pós-teste, com a reavaliação das mesmas habilidades do pré-teste, de modo a analisar os efeitos sobre a aprendizagem da leitura e escrita. As análises estatísticas mostraram diferenças significativas entre o pré e o pós-teste para todas as habilidades avaliadas. Dos 31 participantes do reforço escolar, em apenas seis alunos não se observou evolução do pré para o pós-teste. Os outros 25 alunos avançaram significativamente na aprendizagem da leitura e da escrita, concluindo-se que a intervenção mostrou-se eficaz para a superação das dificuldades de alfabetização para a maior parte dos alunos vítimas de fracasso escolar. / JUSTINO, M. I. S. V. Effects of tutoring in phonics approach in elementary school students with serious gaps in literacy. 2010. 156 p. Masters dissertation Ribeirão Preto School of Philosophy, Sciences and Literature USP. Despite the changes implemented in policy, curriculum and instructional methodology in the last ten years, the results of evaluations of the performance of pupils in basic education, in national and state levels, have indicated serious problems at learning basic skills in reading and writing. In the context of this issue, this study sought to evaluate the effects of an intervention to enhance these skills, starting at the development of phonological awareness and explicit teaching of the correspondence between graphemes and phonemes, in a group of students of elementary school cycles I and II, with serious gaps in literacy. This study involved 31 students, aged between 09 and 21 years, of both sexes, attending the 4th to 8th grades, in a public elementary school on the outskirts at Ribeirão Preto, in São Paulo. The research comprised four stages: initially a collective diagnostic evaluation was performed to assess the skills of reading and writing of all students from 4th to 8th grades of that school. Those having difficulties in literacy were assessed individually in the pre-test in letter knowledge, phonological awareness, reading and writing words, and 31 students with serious gaps in terms of literacy were sent to the intervention. Tutoring activities were developed collectively in two weekly classes of two hours each, for 10 months. At the end of the intervention was performed post-test, with a reassessment of the same abilities of the pre-test in order to analyze the effects on reading and writing skills. The statistical analysis showed significant differences between pre and post test for all abilities evaluated. Among the 31 participants only in six students we have not observed great changes between the pre and post-test. The other 25 students made significant progress in reading and writing, concluding that the was effective in overcoming the difficulties in literacy for most students who are victims of school failure.

Já é conhecida a relação de reciprocidade entre consciência fonológica e habilidades de leitura. Diversas pesquisas demonstraram o efeito direto do treino em habilidades de consciência fonológica sobre a aquisição da leitura e como o treino sistemático da leitura auxilia no desenvolvimento de níveis mais complexos de consciência fonológica. Dentro deste contexto, o objetivo da pesquisa foi verificar a eficácia do CD-ROM Alfabetização Fônica Computadorizada no desenvolvimento de habilidades de consciência fonológica e de leitura em crianças do segundo ano do ensino fundamental. Participaram do estudo 81 crianças, com idades entre seis e oito anos, de ambos os sexos, matriculadas no segundo ano de uma escola municipal da periferia de um município com 30.000 habitantes. Para avaliar a consciência fonológica foi aplicada a Prova de Consciência Fonológica. Para avaliar as habilidades de leitura utilizou-se uma versão da Provinha Brasil e uma prova de leitura oral de palavras. Foi adotado um delineamento de comparação de grupos com três momentos de avaliação. No primeiro momento, todas as crianças foram avaliadas. Depois da primeira avaliação, foi conduzida a intervenção somente com as crianças do Grupo 1. Na intervenção, as atividades do CD-ROM foram distribuídas em dez sessões, que aconteciam duas vezes por semana. Ao final da intervenção, todos os participantes foram avaliados novamente. As crianças do Grupo 2 passaram pela intervenção depois da segunda avaliação. Após o término da intervenção no Grupo 2, foi realizada a última avaliação nos dois grupos. Os resultados foram analisados em termos de efeito da intervenção e resposta à intervenção em função do repertório prévio de habilidades de consciência fonológica. Em relação aos efeitos da intervenção, os resultados indicaram que o programa teve impacto direto nas habilidades de síntese fonêmica e segmentação fonêmica dos participantes. Isso foi observado pela diferença significativa entre os grupos apresentada na segunda avaliação, quando apenas um dos grupos havia sido submetido à intervenção. Nas outras habilidades envolvidas na consciência fonológica e nas habilidades de leitura, os resultados não indicaram efeito significativo da intervenção, mas mostraram desenvolvimento dessas habilidades ao longo do ano letivo. Para avaliar a resposta à intervenção em função do repertório prévio, os participantes foram classificados em cinco perfis de desenvolvimento das habilidades de consciência fonológica, antes e depois da intervenção. A comparação entre as avaliações pré e pós-intervenção mostrou que as crianças com repertório de entrada mais refinado, ou seja, com habilidades fonológicas mais desenvolvidas, foram as mais beneficiadas pelo programa. / The reciprocal relationship between phonological awareness and reading skills is already known. Several studies have demonstrated the direct effect of training in phonological awareness on reading acquisition and how the systematic training of reading supports the development of more complex levels of phonological awareness. In this context, the aim of the research was to determine the effectiveness of the CD-ROM Alfabetização Fônica Computadorizada in the development of phonological awareness and reading in children from the second year of elementary school. The study included 81 children, aged between six and eight years old, of both sexes, enrolled in the second year of a public school on the outskirts of a town with 30,000 inhabitants. To assess phonological awareness, the Phonological Awareness Test was applied. To assess reading skills, a version of Provinha Brasil and an oral word reading test were applied. We adopted a randomized comparison of groups in three evaluation moments. At first, all children were assessed. After the first assessment, the intervention was conducted only on children from Group 1. During the intervention, the activities of the CD-ROM were distributed over ten sessions, which happened twice a week. At the end of the intervention, all participants were assessed again. Children from Group 2 went through the intervention after the second evaluation. At the end of the intervention in Group 2, the last evaluation was conducted in both groups. The results were analyzed in terms of the effect of the intervention and response to intervention due to prior repertoire of phonological awareness. Regarding the effects of the intervention, the results indicated that the program had a direct impact on phonemic synthesis and phonemic segmentation skills of the participants. This was observed through the significant difference between the groups during the second evaluation, when only one of the groups had been subjected to the intervention. In relation to the other skills involved in phonological awareness and reading skills, the results indicated no significant effect arising from the intervention, but showed development of these skills throughout the school year. In order to evaluate the response to the intervention as a function of prior repertoire, participants were classified into five development profiles of phonological awareness skills before and after the intervention. The comparison between pre- and post-intervention assessments showed that children with a more refined repertoire of entry, i.e. with more developed phonological skills, were the most benefited from the program.

A criança, desde muito precoce, domina a linguagem sob forma de compreensão e produção, habilidades que ocorrem espontaneamente como parte de seu desenvolvimento; só mais tarde se torna capaz de controlar conscientemente os tratamentos lingüísticos que realiza. A essa capacidade se dá o nome de habilidade metalingüística, que deve ser diferenciada da simples possibilidade de linguagem. Todas as aquisições da criança comportam sempre “metaprocessos", presentes em todos os níveis do desenvolvimento e não apenas tardiamente. Isto permite distinguir os “metaprocessos precoces" dos “metaprocessos tardios", que se tornam disponíveis para a consciência e são verbalizáveis. Assim, as habilidades metalingüísticas ocorrem como resultados explícitos de aprendizagem, freqüentemente de natureza escolar. É objetivo desta pesquisa avaliar a eficácia de um programa de desenvolvimento de habilidades metafonológicas no Ambiente de aprendizagem “Realidade Suplementar". A pesquisa foi realizada em três escolas do Ensino Fundamental, com quatro Classes de Recuperação de Ciclo da Rede Estadual. A amostra compõe-se de quatro Grupos de Controle (GCa.1; GCa.2 e GCb.1; GCb.2) e de dois Grupos de Intervenção (GI.1 e GI.2). Para se identificarem os alunos que compuseram os grupos, foram utilizados a Prova de Consciência Fonológica (PCF) e o Teste de Desempenho Escolar (TDE), aplicados a todos os alunos da sala. Após a determinação da média/mediana dos resultados compostos nos dois testes, foi separada a metade dos alunos que obtiveram resultados maiores que a média/mediana como sendo o GCa. A outra metade dos alunos, com rendimento inferior à média/mediana, foi dividida em dois subgrupos, sendo um quarto dos alunos da classe para o GCb, que não participam da intervenção, e o outro quarto para o GI, cujos alunos participariam da intervenção, através do programa de treinamento das habilidades metafonológicas no ambiente de aprendizagem de “Realidade Suplementar" (RS). A amostra total de 61 alunos foi distribuída assim: 27 alunos para o GCa, sendo (GCa.1 – 14 alunos e GCa.2 – 13 alunos), 18 alunos para o GCb, sendo (GCb.1 - 08 alunos e GCb.2 – 10 alunos); 16 alunos para o GI, sendo (GI.1 – 07 alunos e GI.2 – 09 alunos). Para a análise dos dados quantitativos, colhidos através da PCF e do TDE, foi utilizado o Pacote Estatístico SPSS. Os dados qualitativos foram submetidos à análise sociométrica. Os resultados obtidos através das análises estatísticas revelaram diferenças significativas na PCF e no TDE para o grupo de intervenção, na Realidade Suplementar, tanto no pós-teste em relação ao pré-teste, como na comparação com os Grupos de Controle, demonstrando a eficácia da mesma. / The child, since his/her early days, masters the language under both the shape of comprehension and production, abilities that come up spontaneously as part of its proper individual development for, only later on, he/she will be able to control with awareness, the linguistic treatments that he/she has been envolved. To this awareness capacity the name of metalinguitic ability comes up, which must be differentiated of the simple language possibilities. All of the child´s acquisition always become “metaprocesses" available at every level of the infant development, not just something about to happen later on.This situation permits us distinguish the “precoucious metaprocesses" from the “ retarded ones", those which become available for both conscience and verbalization attitudes. Thus, the metalinguistic skills occur as a result of explicit apprenticeship, frequently derived of a schooling nature. It is objective of this research to evaluate the effectiveness of a Program of metaphonological skills development performed in learning environments of the sort “Suplementary Reality". The research was achieved at 3 Fundamental Schools holding 4 Recuperation Classes in the Cycle at given State School network.The sample is made up of 4 Groups of Control (GCa.1; GCa.2; and Gcb.1; GCb.2) and 2 Groups of Intervention(GI.1 and GI. 2). For the identification of the students who shared these groups, both the Phonological Awareness Proof (PCF) and The Schooling Performance Test(TDE) were applied to every single student in the classroom. Shortly after that both the average/median were obtained based on both tests , the half of the students who held better achievement scores than the average/median were named GCa. The other half of students, holding an inferior yielding regarding the average/median was devided into 2 subgroups, being that one fourth of students in the classroom was named GCb, that is, to those that did not partake in the intervention, and another quarter to the GI, those who would be sharing the intervention later on, via the Program of Metaphological Skills abilities in the learning environment of Suplementary Reality(RS). The total sample of 61 students was distributed as follows: 27 students for the GCa, being (GCa.1 – 14 students and GCa.2 – 13 students), 18 students to the GCb being ( GCb 8 students and GCb.2 – 10 students), 16 students at GI being (GI.1 – 7 students and GI.2 –9 students). For the analysis of the quantitative data that were collected via (PCF – TDE), it was used the Statistical Package SPSS. On the other hand, the qualitative data were submitted to a sociometric analysis. The results obtained through the statistical analysis revealed significative differences at the PCF, at the TDE, that is, for the Intervention Group, at the Supplemetary Reality, as well as at after –testing regarding the pre-testing, as well while comparing the same values with other groups of control, the effectiveness showed to be the same

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-06-21T13:30:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Débora Mattos Marques_.pdf: 5619293 bytes, checksum: cba1a8b5c1da2ba958aad79c3f5b630e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-21T13:30:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Débora Mattos Marques_.pdf: 5619293 bytes, checksum: cba1a8b5c1da2ba958aad79c3f5b630e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-28 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / É quase consenso na literatura que a consciência fonológica está ligada às habilidades de leitura e escrita, e isso tem promovido pesquisas a respeito daqueles indivíduos com trajetórias diferentes de desenvolvimento e que não alcançam (ou alcançam tardiamente) a capacidade de ler e escrever fluentemente. Esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal fazer uma revisão crítica da literatura a fim de olhar para pesquisas realizadas com a intenção de fortalecer a consciência fonológica em indivíduos de quatro amostras de desenvolvimento atípico: síndrome de Williams, Autismo, síndrome de Down, e Dislexia, com possível impacto nas habilidades de leitura e de escrita. Foram utilizadas quatro bases de dados, com buscas em português, inglês e espanhol, resultando em um total de 34 textos incluídos para esta análise. As pesquisas mostraram que as intervenções com foco em consciência fonológica são favoráveis ao desenvolvimento de habilidades de leitura e escrita também nessas populações e suscitaram reflexões a respeito das metodologias utilizadas, tempos de treinamento, número de informantes, entre outros aspectos. / It is almost consensual in the literature that phonological awareness is linked to reading and writing skills, and this has promoted research on individuals with different developmental trajectories who do not develop (or do it later) the ability to read and write fluently. The main objective of this dissertation is to do a critical review of papers that focus on the reinforcement of phonological awareness in individuals from four atypical populations: Williams Syndrome, Autism, Down Syndrome and Dyslexia, with potential impact on reading and writing skills. We searched papers on four databases, using keywords in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. The result is an amount of of 34 papers, analized in this study. The papers we found have shown that interventions focused on phonological awareness are favorable to the development of reading and writing skills in these populations, which raised some considerations about methodologies, training duration, number of informants, among other aspects.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:56:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lina Maria de Moraes Carvalho.pdf: 2076667 bytes, checksum: 24e1089cb7ab98626664b8149c9eab29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Recent developed researches at the area of Cognitive Science of Reading are emphasizing the importance of the metalinguistics skills to promote the success at the initial learning of reading and writing. Programs of pedagogical intervention aim to develop abilities of phonological awareness have shown themselves efficacious to favour the development of these abilities and the learning of reading and writing, including at students with difficulties at this learning. Based on these assumptions and considering the reduced number of these researches in Brazil, specially with students who have difficulties at learning of written language, the present study investigated the effects of a program of intervention - composed by activities and games which aim to develop abilities of phonological awareness - about the learning of reading and writing of children from the 3rd and 4th junior school with difficulties at this learning. The research was done at a public municipal school, in Teresina-Pí. The study involved 18 children both genders distributed in two groups: the experimental group with 9 children aged 7,1 to 9,3 years and the control group with 9 children aged 7,5 to 9,1 years. The research followed the experimental design developed in three phases: pre-test, intervention and pos-test. Tests of phonological awareness, written of words, reading of words and knowledge of letters were used. The written test was applied simultaneously to the children and the others were applied individually by the researcher to each children before and after the intervention. The intervention program is composed by five units of activities and games which aim to develop phonological awareness skills. It was developed by the researcher with the participants of the experimental group, three times a week, in 24 sessions of activities, each one lasts 90 minutes. The data were analyzed and discussed in confront to other results of research in this field. The results showed positive effects of the intervention on the performance of the experimental group, at the abilities of phonological awareness as at the writing and reading of words, supporting the hypothesis of co-relation between the deficit in phonological awareness and difficulties at the acquisition of reading and writing. These results confirm that the programs of instructive activities in phonological awareness are efficacious to develop the phonological awareness and favour the acquisition of reading and writing in students with difficulties at the learning of these abilities. The results give evidences on the importance of explicit and systematic teaching of correspondences between graphemes and phonemes and phonemic awareness at the beginning of school learning, to promote the success at the learning of reading and writing, showing it s better to prevent than to remedy / Pesquisas recentes desenvolvidas na área da Ciência Cognitiva da Leitura vêm enfatizando a importância das habilidades metalinguísticas para promover o sucesso na aprendizagem inicial da leitura e da escrita. Programas de intervenção pedagógica visando desenvolver habilidades de consciência fonológica têm se mostrado eficazes para favorecer o desenvolvimento dessas habilidades e a aprendizagem da leitura e da escrita, inclusive em alunos com dificuldades nessa aprendizagem. Com base nesses pressupostos e considerando o reduzido número dessas pesquisas no Brasil, principalmente com alunos com dificuldades na aprendizagem da linguagem escrita, o presente estudo investigou os efeitos de um programa de intervenção - composto de atividades e jogos visando desenvolver habilidades de consciência fonológica - sobre a aprendizagem da leitura e escrita de crianças de 3º e 4º anos do Ensino Fundamental com dificuldades nessa aprendizagem. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma escola pública municipal, em Teresina-Pí. Participaram do estudo 18 crianças de ambos os sexos, distribuídas em dois grupos, o experimental com 9 crianças com idade de 7;1 a 9;3 anos e o grupo controle com 9 crianças com idade de 7;5 a 9;1 anos. A pesquisa seguiu o delineamento experimental e foi desenvolvida em três fases: pré-teste, intervenção e pós-teste. Foram utilizadas provas de consciência fonológica, escrita de palavras, leitura de palavras e conhecimento de letras. A prova de escrita foi aplicada coletivamente e as outras individualmente pela pesquisadora a todas as crianças antes e após a intervenção. O programa de intervenção é composto de 5 unidades de atividades e jogos visando desenvolver habilidades de consciência fonológica nos níveis suprassegmentar e segmentar da fala. Foi desenvolvido pela pesquisadora com os participantes do grupo experimental, três vezes por semana, em 24 sessões de atividades, cada uma com duração de 90 minutos. Os dados foram analisados e discutidos em confronto com outros resultados de pesquisas da área. Os resultados mostraram efeitos positivos da intervenção sobre o desempenho dos participantes do grupo experimental, tanto nas habilidades de consciência fonológica quanto de escrita e de leitura de palavras, dando suporte às hipóteses de correlação entre déficit em consciência fonológica e dificuldades na aquisição da leitura e da escrita. Os achados confirmam que programas de atividades instrutivas em consciência fonológica são eficazes para desenvolver consciência fonológica e favorecer a aquisição da leitura e da escrita em alunos com dificuldades na aprendizagem dessas habilidades. Os resultados evidenciam claramente a importância do ensino explícito e sistemático das correspondências entre grafemas e fonemas e da instrução em consciência fonêmica no início da aprendizagem escolar para promover o sucesso na aprendizagem da leitura e da escrita, mostrando que é melhor prevenir do que remediar