Native - language and
English phonemic awareness skills contribute to English reading comprehension.
Not exact matches
Hence, some phonological and
phonemic awareness tasks can transfer between Spanish and
English, indicating that knowledge in Spanish is useful in acquiring
English reading
skills.
[From findings on the Transfer of
Skills from Spanish to
English: A Study of Young Learners, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.] The results indicated that Spanish
phonemic awareness, Spanish letter identification, and Spanish word reading were reliable predictors of performance on parallel tasks in
English at the end of third and fourth grades.
This Developing Reader curriculum furthers the students»
phonemic awareness skill level as it teaches them to hear the Spanish language at the phoneme level; a transferable
skill that will be essential to their success when learning to read in
English.
In order to read
English with understanding, ELLs must have developed
phonemic awareness, phonics
skills, word recognition
skills, vocabulary knowledge, and the ability to read somewhat fluently.