Using "Rhyming Centered Instruction" for Developing EFL Phonological Awareness Skills Among First Year Primary Stage Pupils
By
Hasnaa Sabry Abdel-Hamid Ahmed Helwa
Lecturer at Department of Curriculum and TEFL Instruction Faculty of Education- Benha University- Egypt
Introduction
Reading proficiency involves five main skills: phonological awareness, an explicit awareness of the language sound structure; phonics awareness, understanding the link between sounds in a language with a given symbol or letter of that language; fluency and phrasing words meaningfully; vocabulary, knowing the meaning of the words one reads; and comprehension, knowing the meaning of the words in context, to tie together ideas, information and prior knowledge ( National
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Phonemic awareness is an understanding of spoken language. Phonological awareness entails understanding of spoken language and involves tasks such as rhyming words; comparing initial sounds; determining the number of phonemes in a word; identifying two sections in a compound word and separating syllables. Phonemic awareness includes tasks of individual phonemes or within words such as blending, deleting, substituting and moving. Townend (2000) clarifies that phonological awareness is the accurate perception of all the individual sounds, or phonemes, within a spoken word. It also includes the perception of relationships between sounds, such as …show more content…
PA is measured at the beginning of kindergarten as one of the two best predictors of how well children will learn to read during their first two years of school, along with letter knowledge. Thus, phonological-awareness skills have been found to predict children's reading skills, and phonological-awareness instruction has been found to improve their phonological awareness and reading skills (Bjarnadóttir , 2003 ,Bolduc and Lefebvre ,2012, Schmitz,