Vocabulary knowledge, phonological representations and phonological sensitivity in Spanish-speaking low- and middle-income preschoolers

DIUK, BEATRIZ, BORZONE, ANA MARÍA Y LEDESMA, RUBÉN

Vancouver, Canadá

Congreso; XIIIth Annual Meeting. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading; 2006

Society for the Scientific Study of Reading

The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among vocabulary knowledge, phonological representations of lexical items and phonological sensitivity in 79 Spanish-speaking preschool children from middle- and low-income families. These skills are currently considered developmental precursors to reading acquisition and socioeconomic differences in some of them have been identified in several studies. Significant social class differences were obtained on all tasks except syllable matching. Receptive vocabulary predicted rhyme identification. Syllable matching was predicted by a task tapping accuracy of phonological representations. Results were interpreted taking into account environmental factors - opportunities for vocabulary growth, structural characteristics of Spanish and pedagogical intervention.