This study was to investigate the effect of phonological awareness training on phonological awareness, word recognition, and spelling skill. The subject of the study was 3 elementary students with learning disabilities in reading and writing areas. Th...
This study was to investigate the effect of phonological awareness training on phonological awareness, word recognition, and spelling skill. The subject of the study was 3 elementary students with learning disabilities in reading and writing areas. The phonological awareness training program was composed of three levels; syllable level, onset-rhyme level, and phonemic level. The data were collected by multiple probe design across subjects. The intervention sessions had more than thirties, twenty minutes each session, and examined phonological awareness, word recognition, and spelling skill every third session. The results of the study were shown with frequency and percentage, and analyzed the trend of the phonological awareness, word recognition, and spelling by visual analytic method. They were also analyzed the error types of word recognition and spelling skill.
The conclusions of this study were as follows:
First, the phonological awareness training improved the phonological awareness in children with learning disabilities. It was improved as the session progressed, and also maintained even after intervention session.
Second, the phonological awareness improved word recognition of children with learning disabilities. In the word recognition, children were improved on word and non-word recognition, and changed the error types by phonological awareness training.
Third, the phonological awareness improved spelling skills of children with learning disabilities. In the spelling skills, children were improved on word and non-word spelling, and changed the error type by phonological awareness training.
Based on the above, it was proved that children with learning disabilities who were trained phonological awareness program were improved the phonological awareness, and it gave positive effects on word recognition and spelling skills. Also, phonological awareness training affects the error type of word recognition and spelling. The further studies are suggested to develop the program to approach the phonological awareness level of children with learning disabilities, and also to evaluate the appropriateness of program and teaching methods.