Ability of phonological awareness and writing affect each other and develop. This isn't pertinent only to phonological awareness and writing, but all areas of language affect each other and develop. The pre-studies of foreign countries are actively st...
Ability of phonological awareness and writing affect each other and develop. This isn't pertinent only to phonological awareness and writing, but all areas of language affect each other and develop. The pre-studies of foreign countries are actively studying about the relations between phonological awareness and writing and also about how they are affecting each other. But, in Korea, the study about phonological awareness and writing is not done. So, it is to search whether the relations between phonological awareness and writing are shown also in our country's infants who use Korean which is accurate in grapheme-phoneme response system as the results of pre-studies of foreign countries. Also, through this study, it aims at providing basic data to the intermediation and studies about the phonological awareness and writing.
According to these study purposes, we suggested 2 study questions as follow.
First, what relations exist between the ability of phonological awareness and writing for the children?
Second, what pattern is shown in the ability of phonological awareness and writing according to the ages?
For this, it practiced the tests of phonological awareness and writing to the 3, 4, and 5 year old infants who belong to the nurseries in Seoul. To the targets of the study, it practiced tests of phonological awareness and the tests of writing, and found out the correlations between the two. Also, it found out the assignment among the sub-assignments of phonological awareness test that showed the closest correlations with the writing ability, and searched what kind of pattern did it show by ages. The summary of experiment is as follows.
First, the correlation between the ability of phonological awareness and writing showed positive correlation.
Second, among the sub-assignments of phonological awareness ability, that is, among the omission, synthesis and distinction, it was the synthesis assignment that showed the closest correlations with the writing ability.
Third, the children developed in the ability to aware phoneme and writings as they age, and especially, the age in which the two showed closest correlation appeared to be 4.
As we totalize the study results as above, Korean children using hangeul showed high correlation between the ability of phonological awareness and writing, and appeared to show the closest correlation in synthesis assignment and writing ability which are the sub-assignments of the phonological awareness test. Also we can know that as the age increases, they develop in two abilities naturally. But, as the ages of the children increase, the ability of phonological awareness and writing develop, so it was expected that 5-year-olds will have the close relations in the ability of phonological awareness and writing, but the conclusion of the statistics showed that 4-year-olds had the closest correlation.
The ability of phonological awareness and writing develop mutually than individually. So, in this study, it studied while concentrating on the relations with the ability of phonological awareness and writing, but based on this study, if the subsequent studies are done about the teaching method and effects of phonological awareness through writing, the relations between writing and reading, relations among phonological awareness, writing and reading, it may be the basis to make effective program to the rhetorical embellishment development of the children. Also, it seems to contribute to the intermediary program that can arbitrate each area more mutually to the children who have the problem in rhetorical embellishment development.