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The Effects of Phonological Processing Ability on the Reading Ability of Four- and Five-year olds

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2004, 17(2), pp.37-56
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Sunok Kim 1 Jo Hea-Soog 1 공숙자 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examined the effects of phonological processing ability on the reading ability of four- and five-year olds. Forty-eight 4-year olds and fifty 5-year olds took the Phonological Awareness Test(syllable deletion, syllable blending, syllable discrimination, phoneme deletion, phoneme blending, phoneme discrimination), the Phonetic Recoding Test, the Phonological Recoding Test and a Reading Test. The results indicated that the total score for phonological awareness correlated significantly with those of phonetic recoding, the retrieval of phonological recoding and a reading correlated significantly with overall scores on reading for 4-year olds. For 5-year-olds, the total score for phonological awareness and that of phonetic recoding correlated significantly with their reading ability. While only phonological awareness was a significant predictable variable of reading ability for both age groups, syllable deletion and phoneme deletion, elements of phonological awareness were significant predictors for 4-year olds, syllable blending and syllable deletion for 5-year olds.

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