Katie Alcock|Damaris Ngorosho|Cidade de Deus|Matthew Jukes
We don't have language at our house: Disentangling the relationship between phonological awareness, schooling, and literacy
Lancaster University|Harvard University
strong link phonological awareness pa literacy exists origins link difficult investigate since pa skills hard test young preliterate children many studies neither include children report childrens initial literacy levelsto examine pa literacy children attending attending school rural east africaone hundred eight children ages 710 years education grade 1 2 randomly selected community survey children age grouppa skill reading cognitive abilities socioeconomic status examinedimplicit explicit pa skill small large units related letter reading ability effect independent age schooling cognitive ability pa tasks performed chance levels children cannot recognize single lettersbasic pa develops prior attainment literacy learning read improves pa quantitatively qualitatively