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Educational intervention in phonological awareness in preliterate children with Spanish and Tamazight as first language: Comparison of two training programmes

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Herrera, L., S. Defior, et al. (2007). "Educational intervention in phonological awareness in preliterate children with Spanish and Tamazight as first language: Comparison of two training programmes." Intervención educativa en conciencia fonológica en niños prelectores de lengua materna española y tamazight. Comparación de dos programas de entrenamiento 30(1): 39-54.

Methods: The effectiveness of two training programmes on phonological awareness related to the child's first language was evaluated. One of the training programmes included musical activities. 97 preschoolers participated in the study, 46.39% children spoke Spanish as their first language, and 53.60% children spoke Tamazight (a Berber dialect that is transmitted orally and is spoken in Morocco's Rif area). A two year pretest-posttest study with three groups was designed (two intervention groups and a control group). Measures were taken both of letter knowledge and phonological awareness, and short term verbal memory and naming speed performance.

Results: Overall, the results showed that after the intervention phase the two experimental groups performed better than the control group on all phonological processing and reading measures. Moreover, the intervention combining phonological and music activities was found to improve rhyme awareness. The two training programmes were also found to differentially affect the children as a function of the child's first language.