The Effects of Phonological Awareness Training on the Reading Performance by Child EFL Learners in China
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Bing Sun
Abstract
The present study explores the effects of phonological awareness training of child EFL learners in China on their reading performances. Eighty grade one Chinese children from two intact primary school classes participated in the study. The treatment class received a 10-week English phonological awareness training, while the contrast class did not receive any training. Both pre-test and post-test were administered to all participants, including English assessment, phonological awareness measures and English reading measures. The results show that the treatment class outperformed the contrast class in the post-test in reading measures and phonological awareness measures; phonological awareness positively correlated with children’s early reading performance; phoneme tasks were strong predictors of Child EFL learners’ early reading performance.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Speech Recognition Technology in Language Testing: Does Taking the Test in an English-Speaking Environment Matter?
- Effects of Strategic Planning Time on L2 Paired Oral Test Performance
- Developing Chinese Complimenting in a Study Abroad Program
- The Development of Bilingual Children’s Narrative Skills: A Report of the “Looking Glass Neighborhood” Program
- The Effects of Written Corrective Feedback on Chinese EFL Learners’ Acquisition of English Collocations
- The Effects of Phonological Awareness Training on the Reading Performance by Child EFL Learners in China
- Metadiscourse Use in English Job Applications
- Chinese Abstracts
- miscellaneous
- Obituary: Christopher N. Candlin
