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WORD READING STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT OF DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING PRESCHOOLERS by Victoria Burke Siegler’s (1996) overlapping waves model of strategy development applied to reading posits that children use multiple strategies to read words from the earliest stage of reading development, that these strategies coexist over a long period of time, and that experience results in gradual change in the strategies children use and the effectiveness with which they are executed. Phonological recoding is one of the most effective early developing reading strategies and is predictive of future reading success for hearing children (Ehri, 2005; Juel & Mindencupp, 2000; Share & Gur, 1999). However, less is known regarding the extent to which young children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) develop and use phonological strategies to read words. Due to technological advances such as cochlear implants and digital hearing aids, many DHH children have sufficient functional hearing to be able to perceive and represent spoken language. For these children, beginning reading strategies may resemble those of hearing children (Geers, Tobey, Moog, & Brenner, 2008; Lederberg, Schick, & Spencer, in press). The purpose of this study was to describe changes in the word reading strategies of 15 DHH preschoolers with functional hearing. These children received explicit instruction in alphabetic knowledge, phonological awareness, and early reading strategies in a year-long intervention. Instruction was videotaped and children’s overt behavior while independently reading words was coded for reading strategy and accuracy. The preschoolers used multiple reading strategies at all times including two phonological recoding strategies (segmenting phonemes only, segmenting and blending phonemes) and retrieval. Gradual change was observed in strategy choice, execution, and accuracy. Children’s use of segmenting only decreased while segmenting and blending phonemes increased between the beginning and middle of the year. Retrieval use increased between the middle and end of the year. Execution of phonological strategies gradually improved over the year. These results suggest young DHH children who have functional hearing develop and use strategies in a manner similar to hearing children and benefit from explicit instruction in the alphabetic principle.

Vi undersöker i denna uppsats om det finns “alphabetic bias” på Stockholmsbörsen. Praxis inom finans är att aktielistor visas i alfabetisk ordning. Studien undersöker om det finns något samband mellan Tobins Q och företagsnamnets placering i den alfabetiska ordningen. Vi undersöker också om det finns något samband mellan marknadsvärde och företagsnamnets placering i den alfabetiska ordningen. Kapaciteten för att inta information kan variera mellan åldersgrupper, därför undersöker även studien om det finns något samband mellan Tobins Q och åldersgrupper. Om det finns ett samband kan det visa att aktielistornas struktur skapar irrationalitet och ineffektiva placeringar. På den amerikanska aktie- och fondmarknaden har det visats att aktielistornas struktur skapar “alphabetic bias”. Efter att investeringssparkonto introducerades som sparform antar vi att nya individer kommer inträda på marknaden med minskad kunskap inom aktiehandel. Därför undersöker studien även en tvåårsperiod före samt efter investeringssparkonto introducering och jämför skillnader i resultatet. Studiens urval består av 249 företag noterade på Nasdaq OMX Stockholm för tidsperioden 2010-2013 och samtliga Svenska aktieägare över 18 år. Vår studie visar att det finns ett negativt samband mellan Tobins Q och företagsnamnets placering i den alfabetiska listan. Studien visar även att det inte finns något samband mellan marknadsvärde och företagsnamnets placering i alfabetet. Vidare visar vår studie att det finns ett negativt samband mellan Tobins Q och investerare i ålder 65+. Studiens resultat indikerar även ett positivt samband mellan Tobins Q och “breadth of ownership” efter att investeringssparkonto introducerades som sparform. Det vill säga att vi finner belägg för att praxis med alfabetisk ordning bidrar till irrationalitet och ineffektiva placeringar på Stockholmsbörsen. / In this report we investigate ”alphabetic bias” on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The report investigates whether there is any correlation between Tobin Q and the company name´s placing in the alphabetical order. We also investigate whether there is any correlation between market capitalization and the company name placing in the alphabetical order.  The report also investigates whether there are any correlations between Tobin's Q and age-groups. The study’s selection includes 249 companies listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm during the period 2010-2013 and all Swedish shareholders over 18 years old.   Our report shows that there is a negative correlation between Tobin Q and the company name in the alphabetical list. The study also shows that there is none correlation between the market capitalization and the company names placing in the alphabet. Furthermore, our study shows that there is a negative relationship between Tobin Q and investors 65+. The study’s result indicates a positive relationship between Tobin Q and breadth of ownership after the investment saving account was introduced.

Nesta Dissertação de Mestrado tenho como objetivo compreender de que modo o saber estatístico se constitui em um dizer de verdadeiro e como ele opera na produção discursiva da alfabetização, do analfabetismo e do alfabetismo/letramento. Tal estudo se inscreve no referencial teórico-metodológico dos Estudos Culturais em Educação em vertente pós-estruturalista. Inspiro-me nas teorizações de Michel Foucault e utilizo os conceitos de discurso, verdade, biopolítica e governamentalidade. Com o primeiro movimento que realizei no trabalho busquei elencar alguns aspectos históricos e técnicos da constituição da estatística, pois se supõe que esses elementos (históricos e técnicos) conferem às estatísticas um status de verdade. Também trouxe as contribuições de Michel Foucault ao estudo do saber estatístico como um saber necessário ao governamento da população. O segundo movimento consistiu-se em pesquisar as maneiras pelas quais os saberes sobre a leitura e a escrita são quantificados, com quais instrumentos, a partir de quais entendimentos sobre alfabetização e alfabetismo/letramento. Assim, analisei algumas formas de produção de estatísticas sobre alfabetização, analfabetismo e alfabetismo/letramento. O material empírico da pesquisa é composto por artigos acadêmicos de revistas de Educação e de Estatística, resumos de dissertações e teses, e por matérias jornalísticas de publicações impressas e digitais. Nas análises mostrei que o saber estatístico opera na produção discursiva da alfabetização de três maneiras: como material empírico, como procedimento metodológico e fazendose referência às estatísticas ou ao saber estatístico. Além disso, mostrei que essa produção discursiva opera com dados estatísticos utilizando tanto percentuais quanto números absolutos para uma mesma informação, trazendo rankings e mostrando dados que possibilitam comparações. A partir das análises pude mostrar ainda algumas estratégias utilizadas para “fazer falar” os dados, como os comentários dos especialistas, e foi possível visibilizar a formação de professores como a causa e a solução para os baixos e para os altos índices de alfabetização e de alfabetismo/letramento. Discuti a invenção dos níveis de alfabetismo/letramento entendendo-os nesta pesquisa como gradiente de alfabetismo/letramento que operam na multiplicação das posições do sujeito alfabetizado. Em síntese, com as diferentes análises realizadas nessa dissertação, mostrei que o saber estatístico opera como um dizer verdadeiro na produção discursiva da alfabetização, do analfabetismo e do alfabetismo/letramento, na medida em que é capaz de produzir saberes que posicionam os sujeitos quando da sua relação com a leitura e a escrita. / This Master Thesis aims to understand how the statistical knowledge constitutes a discourse of truth and how it operates in the discursive production of literacy, alphabetization and illiteracy / literacy. This study falls within the theoretical and methodological framework of Cultural Studies in Education in a poststructuralist strand. Based upon theories of Michel Foucault, the concepts of discourse, truth, biopolitics and governmentality are found here. This paper has aimed primarily to list some historical and technical aspects of the constitution of statistics, because it is assumed that these elements (historical and technical) provide statistics a status of truth. As well as, it was brought the contributions of Michel Foucault to the study of statistical knowledge as a needed knowledge to govern the population. The second motion consisted in researching the ways in which knowledge about reading and writing are quantified, with which instruments, from which understandings about alphabetization and alphabetic literacy / literacy. Thus, some ways of producing statistics on alphabetic literacy, literacy and illiteracy / literacy were analyzed. The research’s empirical material consists of academic papers and magazines of Education and Statistics, besides, newspaper articles of printed and digital publications. The analyses showed that the statistical knowledge operates in the discursive production of literacy in three ways: as empirical material, methodological procedure and by making reference to statistics or statistical knowledge. Furthermore, it was shown that this discourse production operates statistical data using both percentages and absolute numbers for the same information, also bringing rankings and showing data that allow comparisons. The analyses also showed some strategies used to "talk to" the data, as the comments from experts, and allowed visualization of teacher’s educational background as a cause and solution for the low and high rates of alphabetization and alphabetic literacy / literacy. There were discussions on the invention of levels of alphabetic literacy / literacy, understanding them in this research as gradient of alphabetic literacy / literacy operating in proliferation of the literate subjects’ position. In summary, the different analyzes performed in this dissertation showed that the statistical knowledge operates as a real ‘say’ in the discursive production of alphabetization, alphabetic literacy and illiteracy / literacy, as it is capable of producing knowledge that positions the subject related to reading and writing.

Nesta Dissertação de Mestrado tenho como objetivo compreender de que modo o saber estatístico se constitui em um dizer de verdadeiro e como ele opera na produção discursiva da alfabetização, do analfabetismo e do alfabetismo/letramento. Tal estudo se inscreve no referencial teórico-metodológico dos Estudos Culturais em Educação em vertente pós-estruturalista. Inspiro-me nas teorizações de Michel Foucault e utilizo os conceitos de discurso, verdade, biopolítica e governamentalidade. Com o primeiro movimento que realizei no trabalho busquei elencar alguns aspectos históricos e técnicos da constituição da estatística, pois se supõe que esses elementos (históricos e técnicos) conferem às estatísticas um status de verdade. Também trouxe as contribuições de Michel Foucault ao estudo do saber estatístico como um saber necessário ao governamento da população. O segundo movimento consistiu-se em pesquisar as maneiras pelas quais os saberes sobre a leitura e a escrita são quantificados, com quais instrumentos, a partir de quais entendimentos sobre alfabetização e alfabetismo/letramento. Assim, analisei algumas formas de produção de estatísticas sobre alfabetização, analfabetismo e alfabetismo/letramento. O material empírico da pesquisa é composto por artigos acadêmicos de revistas de Educação e de Estatística, resumos de dissertações e teses, e por matérias jornalísticas de publicações impressas e digitais. Nas análises mostrei que o saber estatístico opera na produção discursiva da alfabetização de três maneiras: como material empírico, como procedimento metodológico e fazendose referência às estatísticas ou ao saber estatístico. Além disso, mostrei que essa produção discursiva opera com dados estatísticos utilizando tanto percentuais quanto números absolutos para uma mesma informação, trazendo rankings e mostrando dados que possibilitam comparações. A partir das análises pude mostrar ainda algumas estratégias utilizadas para “fazer falar” os dados, como os comentários dos especialistas, e foi possível visibilizar a formação de professores como a causa e a solução para os baixos e para os altos índices de alfabetização e de alfabetismo/letramento. Discuti a invenção dos níveis de alfabetismo/letramento entendendo-os nesta pesquisa como gradiente de alfabetismo/letramento que operam na multiplicação das posições do sujeito alfabetizado. Em síntese, com as diferentes análises realizadas nessa dissertação, mostrei que o saber estatístico opera como um dizer verdadeiro na produção discursiva da alfabetização, do analfabetismo e do alfabetismo/letramento, na medida em que é capaz de produzir saberes que posicionam os sujeitos quando da sua relação com a leitura e a escrita. / This Master Thesis aims to understand how the statistical knowledge constitutes a discourse of truth and how it operates in the discursive production of literacy, alphabetization and illiteracy / literacy. This study falls within the theoretical and methodological framework of Cultural Studies in Education in a poststructuralist strand. Based upon theories of Michel Foucault, the concepts of discourse, truth, biopolitics and governmentality are found here. This paper has aimed primarily to list some historical and technical aspects of the constitution of statistics, because it is assumed that these elements (historical and technical) provide statistics a status of truth. As well as, it was brought the contributions of Michel Foucault to the study of statistical knowledge as a needed knowledge to govern the population. The second motion consisted in researching the ways in which knowledge about reading and writing are quantified, with which instruments, from which understandings about alphabetization and alphabetic literacy / literacy. Thus, some ways of producing statistics on alphabetic literacy, literacy and illiteracy / literacy were analyzed. The research’s empirical material consists of academic papers and magazines of Education and Statistics, besides, newspaper articles of printed and digital publications. The analyses showed that the statistical knowledge operates in the discursive production of literacy in three ways: as empirical material, methodological procedure and by making reference to statistics or statistical knowledge. Furthermore, it was shown that this discourse production operates statistical data using both percentages and absolute numbers for the same information, also bringing rankings and showing data that allow comparisons. The analyses also showed some strategies used to "talk to" the data, as the comments from experts, and allowed visualization of teacher’s educational background as a cause and solution for the low and high rates of alphabetization and alphabetic literacy / literacy. There were discussions on the invention of levels of alphabetic literacy / literacy, understanding them in this research as gradient of alphabetic literacy / literacy operating in proliferation of the literate subjects’ position. In summary, the different analyzes performed in this dissertation showed that the statistical knowledge operates as a real ‘say’ in the discursive production of alphabetization, alphabetic literacy and illiteracy / literacy, as it is capable of producing knowledge that positions the subject related to reading and writing.

Nesta Dissertação de Mestrado tenho como objetivo compreender de que modo o saber estatístico se constitui em um dizer de verdadeiro e como ele opera na produção discursiva da alfabetização, do analfabetismo e do alfabetismo/letramento. Tal estudo se inscreve no referencial teórico-metodológico dos Estudos Culturais em Educação em vertente pós-estruturalista. Inspiro-me nas teorizações de Michel Foucault e utilizo os conceitos de discurso, verdade, biopolítica e governamentalidade. Com o primeiro movimento que realizei no trabalho busquei elencar alguns aspectos históricos e técnicos da constituição da estatística, pois se supõe que esses elementos (históricos e técnicos) conferem às estatísticas um status de verdade. Também trouxe as contribuições de Michel Foucault ao estudo do saber estatístico como um saber necessário ao governamento da população. O segundo movimento consistiu-se em pesquisar as maneiras pelas quais os saberes sobre a leitura e a escrita são quantificados, com quais instrumentos, a partir de quais entendimentos sobre alfabetização e alfabetismo/letramento. Assim, analisei algumas formas de produção de estatísticas sobre alfabetização, analfabetismo e alfabetismo/letramento. O material empírico da pesquisa é composto por artigos acadêmicos de revistas de Educação e de Estatística, resumos de dissertações e teses, e por matérias jornalísticas de publicações impressas e digitais. Nas análises mostrei que o saber estatístico opera na produção discursiva da alfabetização de três maneiras: como material empírico, como procedimento metodológico e fazendose referência às estatísticas ou ao saber estatístico. Além disso, mostrei que essa produção discursiva opera com dados estatísticos utilizando tanto percentuais quanto números absolutos para uma mesma informação, trazendo rankings e mostrando dados que possibilitam comparações. A partir das análises pude mostrar ainda algumas estratégias utilizadas para “fazer falar” os dados, como os comentários dos especialistas, e foi possível visibilizar a formação de professores como a causa e a solução para os baixos e para os altos índices de alfabetização e de alfabetismo/letramento. Discuti a invenção dos níveis de alfabetismo/letramento entendendo-os nesta pesquisa como gradiente de alfabetismo/letramento que operam na multiplicação das posições do sujeito alfabetizado. Em síntese, com as diferentes análises realizadas nessa dissertação, mostrei que o saber estatístico opera como um dizer verdadeiro na produção discursiva da alfabetização, do analfabetismo e do alfabetismo/letramento, na medida em que é capaz de produzir saberes que posicionam os sujeitos quando da sua relação com a leitura e a escrita. / This Master Thesis aims to understand how the statistical knowledge constitutes a discourse of truth and how it operates in the discursive production of literacy, alphabetization and illiteracy / literacy. This study falls within the theoretical and methodological framework of Cultural Studies in Education in a poststructuralist strand. Based upon theories of Michel Foucault, the concepts of discourse, truth, biopolitics and governmentality are found here. This paper has aimed primarily to list some historical and technical aspects of the constitution of statistics, because it is assumed that these elements (historical and technical) provide statistics a status of truth. As well as, it was brought the contributions of Michel Foucault to the study of statistical knowledge as a needed knowledge to govern the population. The second motion consisted in researching the ways in which knowledge about reading and writing are quantified, with which instruments, from which understandings about alphabetization and alphabetic literacy / literacy. Thus, some ways of producing statistics on alphabetic literacy, literacy and illiteracy / literacy were analyzed. The research’s empirical material consists of academic papers and magazines of Education and Statistics, besides, newspaper articles of printed and digital publications. The analyses showed that the statistical knowledge operates in the discursive production of literacy in three ways: as empirical material, methodological procedure and by making reference to statistics or statistical knowledge. Furthermore, it was shown that this discourse production operates statistical data using both percentages and absolute numbers for the same information, also bringing rankings and showing data that allow comparisons. The analyses also showed some strategies used to "talk to" the data, as the comments from experts, and allowed visualization of teacher’s educational background as a cause and solution for the low and high rates of alphabetization and alphabetic literacy / literacy. There were discussions on the invention of levels of alphabetic literacy / literacy, understanding them in this research as gradient of alphabetic literacy / literacy operating in proliferation of the literate subjects’ position. In summary, the different analyzes performed in this dissertation showed that the statistical knowledge operates as a real ‘say’ in the discursive production of alphabetization, alphabetic literacy and illiteracy / literacy, as it is capable of producing knowledge that positions the subject related to reading and writing.

Children with complex communication needs (CCN) routinely have difficulty attaining appropriate literacy skills. Two indicators of literacy development are the alphabetic principle and phonemic awareness (Byrne & Fielding-Barnsley, 1989). The acquisition of minimal literacy skills such as letter sound knowledge can give children with CCN the opportunity to communicate and generate their own messages, instead of being reliant on vocabulary provided by others. In order to identify appropriate intervention approaches, nonverbal assessments of phonological and phonemic awareness for individuals with CCN are needed. The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of the Dynamic Assessment of the Alphabetic Principle, as well as determine to what extent the performance of DAAP was associated with other measures of phonological and phonemic awareness and emergent reading skills. The DAAP was administered over the course of one to five session to seven participants with an assortment of developmental and language disorders. In addition to the DAAP, participants were administered a letter-sound knowledge task, a sound matching task that evaluated awareness of first sounds of words and separately evaluated awareness of the last sounds of words (i.e., either sound matching from the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing – 2nd edition [CTOPP-2; Wagner, Torgesen, Reshotte, & Pearson, 2013] or initial sound matching and final sound matching from the Phonological and Print Awareness Scale [PPA; Williams, 2014]). The reliability of the DAAP was calculated in two different ways. First, Cronbach alphas were calculated to estimate the reliability of items within subscales and between the subscales. Reliability of the items within each subscale ranged from .96 to .99 and the reliability of the items between each subscale ranged from .87 to .99. Overall the alpha between all four of the subscales was .96. Next, bivariate correlations were calculated between each subscale score. Values ranged from .82 to .99, and all were significant according to bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals that did not contain 0. This information indicated that there was a high degree of internal consistency for the items and the subtests for the DAAP. To evaluate the extent to which performance on the DAAP was associated with other measures of phonemic awareness, Bivariate Pearson correlations with standard significance values and bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals were calculated. The scores on the onset, rime, coda, and vowel subtests of the DAAP were correlated with sound matching first (SM-First), sound matching last (SM-Last) and sound matching chance (SM-chance) variables. The rime subtest of the DAAP was found to be significantly correlated with SM-First variable. Furthermore, the rime and vowel subscales of the DAAP were found to be significantly correlated with SM-Last variable. All four subtests of DAAP were significantly correlated to SM-chance variable. Lastly, to evaluate the performance on the DAAP in association to other measures of emergent reading skills, bivariate Pearson correlations were calculated between the subtests of the DAAP and letter sound knowledge (LSK). Scores on LSK was significantly related to rime, coda, and vowel. The data suggest that the DAAP is a reliable assessment. Furthermore, many conventional measures of phonological awareness and emergent reading skills were significantly correlated with subtests of DAAP. The pattern of the results suggests that the DAAP may be a reliable tool for measuring acquisition of the alphabetic principle in children with CCN.

xviii, 193 p. / Learning to read and successfully decode words is complex, requiring the integration of critical component skills such as phonological awareness, alphabetic understanding, and phonological recoding. As foundational skills required for reading with automaticity, researchers recommend that explicit instruction of these skills begin early, particularly for students at risk. One commonly used measure to examine students' alphabetic understanding and phonological recoding skills is DIBELS Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF), a pseudo-word reading measure composed of vowel-consonant and consonant-vowel-consonant words. One purpose of this study was to examine the effects of school-level and individual student-level predictors on students' overall performance on NWF in the spring of grade 1 as evidenced by their total Correct Letter Sounds (CLS) and Words Read as Whole Units Correctly (WRWUC) scores. A series of hierarchical linear models were estimated to investigate the contributions of three student-level predictors (English Learner status, fall of grade 1 Phoneme Segmentation Fluency raw scores, and fall of grade 1 NWF scores) and two school-level predictors (percentage of students eligible for free and reduced lunch and percentage of incoming at-risk kindergarteners) in explaining the variance observed in NWF scores A second purpose was to estimate the item difficulties of the first 20 pseudo-words for comparability of difficulty, controlling for student-level covariates. A series of hierarchical generalized linear models were estimated to investigate the contribution of student-level predictors while controlling for school effects. Participants were 1,111 first grade students enrolled in 14 elementary schools participating in the Oregon Reading First initiative. Results indicated that fall of grade 1 NWF raw and quadratic scores were the only statistically significant student-level predictors of CLS and WRWUC scores in the fully specified Level 1 model. The relation between school-level predictors and spring of grade 1 NWF performance complicated interpretation, but both school-level predictors were also significant. Additionally, results of the item difficulty estimates reveal significant student-level effects on item difficulties, providing evidence that item parameters are not equal for the first 20 pseudo-words on DIBELS NWF. The effects were particularly strong for English Learners. Implications for practice and directions for future research are discussed. / Committee in charge: Dr. Paul Yovanoff, Chair; Dr. Gerald Tindal, Member; Dr. Akihito Kamata, Member; Dr. Elizabeth Harn, Outside Member

This study investigates the kanji learning strategies used by learners of Japanese from two non-logographic orthographic backgrounds within the Sinosphere (Korean and Vietnamese), and alphabetic-language-based backgrounds, and how the three groups compare to each other. The study utilised data analysis techniques on data collected from 40 Japanese language learners via an online survey, and semi-structured interviews with four learners from Korea and Vietnam. The study found that Korean and Vietnamese learners benefit from first language kanji knowledge when learning to recognise Japanese kanji (particularly among Korean learners), and that common and preferred kanji learning methods differ between groups, with learners of alphabet-language backgrounds preferring methods from the planning learning and evaluating learning metacognitive strategies categories; and Korean and Vietnamese learners preferring association cognitive and planning learning metacognitive methods.

Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2017-02-20T21:07:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o vers?o definitiva.pdf: 3241390 bytes, checksum: ff59d669fa1bb403bb8bada5f77098f0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-20T21:07:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o vers?o definitiva.pdf: 3241390 bytes, checksum: ff59d669fa1bb403bb8bada5f77098f0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-17 / This dissertation is the result of a research carried out in the Post-Graduate Education in Research Line 2: Culture, Formation and Pedagogical Practices, in the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, which aims to analyze the results of a program intervention consists of phonological awareness activities and educational activities of the letter-sound relationships for understanding the alphabetic principle in students of the 3rd grade of elementary school who failed to ensure the reading and writing learning at the right time. At the end of the literacy cycle, many children don?t even guaranteed basic skills of reading and writing, presenting difficulties in understanding the alphabetic principle. Many researches show that there is influence of phonological awareness on children's performance in the written language appropriation. Other studies suggest that intervention programs in phonological awareness are positive for learning of children with difficulties in reading and writing. Researches have suggested that the development of phonological awareness skills linked to the explicit teaching of letter-sound relationships favors a more effective way, the discovery of the alphabetic principle by the child. Thus, to achieve the established objective, we conducted an experimental nature of research carried out in five phases: pre-test, application of the First Phase of the intervention program, post-test 1, implementation of Second Phase of the intervention program and post-test 2. The data found in the reading and writing tests the children were analyzed in qualitative and quantitative approach. The results revealed that the participation of students in the research group in phonological awareness program, and teaching of letter-sound relationships provided an opportunity a breakthrough in the understanding of the alphabetic principle, highlighting the importance of investing in metalinguistic skills and systematic teaching of grapheme-phoneme correspondences in the literacy process. The data presented in this study suggest important educational implications with regard to teacher formation and the use of metalinguistic skills development activities, such as phonological awareness, in addition to systematic and orderly teaching of grapheme-phoneme correspondences. / Esta disserta??o ? o resultado de uma pesquisa desenvolvida no Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Educa??o, na Linha de Pesquisa 2: Culturas, Forma??o e Pr?ticas Pedag?gicas, da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, que tem por objetivo analisar os resultados de um programa de interven??o composto por atividades de consci?ncia fonol?gica e atividades de ensino das rela??es letra-som para a compreens?o do princ?pio alfab?tico com alunos do 3? ano do Ensino Fundamental que n?o conseguiram garantir a aprendizagem da leitura e da escrita no momento adequado. Ao final do ciclo de alfabetiza??o, muitas crian?as ainda n?o garantiram compet?ncias b?sicas de leitura e escrita, apresentando dificuldades na compreens?o do princ?pio alfab?tico. In?meras pesquisas realizadas mostram que h? influ?ncia da consci?ncia fonol?gica no desempenho das crian?as na apropria??o da linguagem escrita. Outros estudos sugerem que programas de interven??o em consci?ncia fonol?gica apresentam resultados positivos na aprendizagem de crian?as com dificuldades na leitura e na escrita. Pesquisas t?m sugerido que o desenvolvimento de habilidades de consci?ncia fonol?gica atrelado ao ensino expl?cito das rela??es letra-som favorece, de uma forma mais efetiva, a descoberta do princ?pio alfab?tico pela crian?a. Dessa forma, para alcan?armos o objetivo tra?ado, realizamos uma investiga??o de natureza experimental realizada com um grupo controle (GC) e um grupo de pesquisa (GP), em cinco fases: pr?-teste, aplica??o da I fase do programa de interven??o, p?s-teste 1, aplica??o da II fase do programa de interven??o e p?s-teste 2. Os dados encontrados nos testes de leitura e escrita das crian?as foram analisados nas abordagens qualitativa e quantitativa. Os resultados revelaram que a participa??o dos alunos do grupo de pesquisa no programa de consci?ncia fonol?gica e ensino das rela??es letra-som oportunizou um avan?o na compreens?o do princ?pio alfab?tico, evidenciando a import?ncia do investimento nas habilidades metalingu?sticas e no ensino sistem?tico das correspond?ncias grafema-fonema no processo de alfabetiza??o. Os dados apresentados nesta pesquisa sugerem importantes implica??es educacionais, no que diz respeito ? forma??o de professores e ? utiliza??o de atividades de desenvolvimento de habilidades metalingu?sticas, tais como a consci?ncia fonol?gica, al?m do ensino l?dico, sistem?tico e ordenado das correspond?ncias grafema-fonema.