PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT AND WRITING IN EARLY AGES

In the languages of alphabetic script like ours, learning to write requires awareness of the phonological structure of speech. Phonological awareness is the ability that allows access to the structure of spoken language and be aware of the phonological segments of words. We now know, that phonological awareness is a necessary skill for learning to write. However, few studies aimed at ascertaining the relations between the skills that promote phonological awareness and the evolutionary stages of learning to write. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between writing and learning skills that promote phonological awareness, and specify the relationships that occur between the different stages of the construction process of writing and awareness levels phonological relation to the evolutionary process of the child in the early ages. We used a correlational design that allowed us to clarify the factors that explain the initial learning of the writing system. The study involved 166 students from different public and private schools aged between 4 and 6 years. The results show the relationship between the levels of phonological awareness and the evolutionary process of the child in learning to write at this age, and the fact that at the age of four years is an appropriate time for the start of teaching of writing and that 5 years is the period in which the learner is better prepared to learn this language skill.