A Cross-linguistic Comparison of Phonological Awareness and Word Recognition in Turkish and English Comparaison entre la reconnaissance phonologique et la reconnaissance des mots en turc et en anglais Una comparación lingüística cruzada de la Conciencia Fonológica y del reconocimiento de palabras en turco e inglés

Abstract

Phonological awareness has been demonstrated by numerous researchers to be one of the most powerful predictors of subsequent reading success. By considering these predictors as a starting point, the relations between children's phonological awareness developed at the pre-reading stage and their reading skills were examined and the influences of the features of various language systems and orthographies upon children's phonological awareness and subsequent reading abilities were studied. The results are important for developing new methods for teaching reading. In this research, besides studying the relationship between the development of children's phonological awareness and their subsequent reading skills, how the children's linguistic and orthographic characteristics of English and Turkish effect phonological awareness and subsequent reading success were also analysed. The aim was to recommend the most appropriate method for teaching reading and writing to children acquiring literacy in Turkish. The res...