Souza Lourdes Bernadete Rocha de, Leite Aline Gisele Conceição
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
Codas. 2014 Jan-Feb;26(1):61-7.
To compare the performance of phonological awareness skills in bilingual and monolingual students of both genders.
This research presents an observational, cross-sectional descriptive study conducted with 17 students from the 3rd grade, aged between seven years and 8 years and 11 months, with similar socioeconomic level, from two private schools, being one a monolingual school, and the other a bilingual one. Children at risk for auditory deprivation of any degree, those with learning difficulties, and children enrolled in the school less than two years were excluded from the research. A total of nine bilingual and eight monolingual students was tested using the Phonological Awareness Profile test.
The results showed that 64.7% of the 17 students tested reached the performance expected for their age, and 35.3% performed above expectation, being 83.3% of the latter bilingual students. The bilingual children presented better performance in the sequential rhyme skill and in the total test score, and the male bilingual children presented better performance in the phoneme addition skill. There was no statistically significant difference when comparing the performance of bilingual and monolingual female students.
Bilingual children had greater command of phonemic awareness skill. Male bilingual children showed better performance when compared to their monolingual peers than female bilingual students.
比较双语和单语学生在语音意识技能方面的表现，涉及不同性别的学生。
本研究呈现了一项观察性横断面描述性研究，研究对象为来自两所私立学校三年级的17名学生，年龄在7岁至8岁11个月之间，社会经济水平相似。其中一所是单语学校，另一所是双语学校。研究排除了任何程度听觉剥夺风险的儿童、有学习困难的儿童以及入学不到两年的儿童。使用语音意识概况测试对总共9名双语学生和8名单语学生进行了测试。
结果显示，在接受测试的17名学生中，64.7%达到了其年龄预期的表现，35.3%表现高于预期，其中后者中有83.3%是双语学生。双语儿童在顺序押韵技能和总测试分数方面表现更好，男性双语儿童在音素添加技能方面表现更好。比较双语和单语女生的表现时，没有统计学上的显著差异。
双语儿童对音素意识技能掌握得更好。与单语同龄人相比，男性双语儿童比女性双语学生表现更好。
