LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 23:6 June 2023
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Phonological Awareness in Typical Children Speaking English

Ms. Jiya Annu Jacob and
Dr. Sathish Kumaraswamy, PhD in Speech and Hearing

Abstract

Phonological awareness is an individual awareness to the sound structure or phonological structure of a spoken word in contrast to written word. Phonological awareness to be examined in the broader scope of phonology because we find that long before a child become aware of the phonological structure of words, he or she has specialised phonological knowledge. The purpose of the study is to describe the phonological awareness in 3-7 years old typical children speaking English. Twenty typical children speaking English were randomly picked up from various schools in Kerala in the range of 3-7 years. Three subtests syllable blending, phoneme blending, rhyme from the Phonological Awareness Test was adapted with modification to suit Indian population was used as stimuli. Statistical analysis revealed high significant difference across age groups for all the subtests.

Introduction

Phonology is the ability to hear the differences between sounds in spoken words. Children that lack phonological awareness are unable to comprehend alliteration, the meaning of rhyme, or the fact that some words are longer than others.

Phonological awareness describes awareness of how spoken language consists of smaller components and ability to identify and manipulate these. Torgerson, Brooks, Gascoine and Higgins (2019), Ehri & Flugman (2018).

The International Literacy Association (2020) confirms that phonological awareness particularly at the phoneme level has a direct role in many components of literacy development including decoding and spelling. (The International Literacy Association 2020) Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentence and word. Examples include being able to identify words that rhyme, recognize alliteration, segmenting a sentence into words, identifying the syllables in a word and blending and segmenting onset-rhymes.

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Ms. Jiya Annu Jacob
Final Post Graduate Student
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
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Dr. Sathish Kumaraswamy, PhD in Speech and Hearing
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