| Grant number: | 13/12602-5 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| Start date: | September 01, 2013 |
| End date: | May 31, 2016 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Psychology |
| Principal Investigator: | Maria Regina Maluf |
| Grantee: | Renan de Almeida Sargiani |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 14/00711-7 - Impact of phonemic awareness instruction on the early phases of development in learning to read and spell, BE.EP.DR |
Abstract The objective of this study is to determine the effect of training in phonemic segmentation associated with direct observation of phono-articulatory facial expressions. Previous studies have shown that to observing pictures of phonemes articulation benefits the learning of phonemic segmentation skills and therefore the learning of reading and writing. However, these studies were carried out with training programs implemented individually and with material not available to most teachers. In this study we propose an experimental situation similar to the one in the classroom, with instruction in phonemic segmentation done collectively. Children aged 3, 4 and 5 years will be assigned to one of three experimental conditions: training in phonemic segmentation with direct observation of phono-articulatory facial expressions (ODEF), simple training in phonemic segmentation (SFS) and a control condition that will not receive any training. It is expected that the ODEF condition will be more effective because it includes a complementary mnemonic resource which is the direct observation of phono-articulatory facial expressions. This experimental study will be developed over two years in six stages: pre-test, level-off training, intervention and three post-tests at intervals of 7 days, 30 days and 1 year after intervention. Approximately 270 children aged 3, 4 and 5 years (90 children in each age group) of two Early Childhood Centers of São Paulo will participate in this study. Children will be evaluated in the pre-test in reading, writing, phonemic awareness, alphabetic knowledge and cognitive development. After this evaluation they will be randomly assigned to one of the three experimental conditions making up different age groups. Children in ODEF groups will receive instruction to segment words into phonemes with the aid of direct observation of phono-articulatory facial expressions of their peers of the same age; children in the SFS groups will receive instruction to segment words into phonemes using only letters. Children in the control groups will not receive any training. The three experimental conditions will be tested on children of different age groups in order to verify whether the difference in age of the participants has a different effect on the learning process. After the intervention all children will be reassessed using the same measures of the pre-test at different time intervals to check the effects of the training in the long term. Data analysis will be made from calculations of ANOVA, Pearson Correlation and Regression Analysis.Keywords: phonemic segmentation, reading, writing, learning, early childhood education, cognitive development | |
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