Phonological Instruction Promotes the Phonological Awareness and Knowledge of Letters of Children in Kindergarten

Phonological awareness plays a key role in the acquisition of English reading.In the present study,the authors trained the children in phonological awareness by the self-made materials and games according to the development of English phonological awareness in which the children can learn alphabets,words,and sentences.Sixty-three 3-year-old children(from a normal kindergarten in Beijing) were recruited into two groups by random.One is the experimental group with phonological instruction,and the other is the controlling group with the traditional method.After eight weeks,the children in experimental group outperformed obviously the control group on the syllabic awareness,rhyme awareness,phonemic awareness and knowledge of letters,especially the first two.These results showed that phonological instruction can(possibly) promote the phonological awareness in kindergarten.