Phonological awareness in Spanish: a tutorial for speech-language pathologists.

In the United States, more than 2 million children in Grades pre-K through 6 speak Spanish as their primary language. Approximately 50% of these students receive academic instruction in Spanish. This tutorial provides research-based recommendations for presenting phonological awareness tasks to chil...

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Publicado en:Communication Disorders Quarterly Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 13 - 23
Autores principales: Gorman BK, Gillam RB
Formato: review tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Fall2003
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Sumario:In the United States, more than 2 million children in Grades pre-K through 6 speak Spanish as their primary language. Approximately 50% of these students receive academic instruction in Spanish. This tutorial provides research-based recommendations for presenting phonological awareness tasks to children who receive literacy instruction in Spanish. The authors also discuss how phonological awareness development may differ between monolingual children learning Spanish and monolingual children learning English, and the implications of these differences for choosing appropriate phonological awareness tasks for Spanish speakers.