Applied Linguistics at the Interface - British Association for Applied Linguistics
Chinese-speaking childrens’ awareness of English phonological units
Applied Linguistics at the Interface - British Association for Applied Linguistics
Fu-hsing Su
National Chiayi University
Li-szu Huang
First University of Science and Technology
Description
This chapter discusses Taiwanese children’s awareness of English phonological units. Notions from the Developmental Hierarchy Hypothesis are adopted as the theoretical framework. The subjects are 186 fifth graders from a Taiwanese elementary school, who took three tests which evaluated their phonemic awareness at the phonemic, intrasyllabic, and syllabic levels respectively.