Phonological awareness

Overview

Influence: Phonological awareness
Domain: Curricula
Sub-Domain: Reading, writing and the arts
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
Influence Definition: Phonological awareness is a broad skill which involves assessing and improving phonemic awareness (a subset of phonological awareness isolating the sounds in a word), such as phoneme isolation, identification, categorization, blending; segmentation, and deletion. Phonological awareness is an umbrella term that encompasses the awareness and ability to manipulate spoken parts of words or sentences including word awareness, syllables, onset and rhyme.

Evidence

Number of meta-analyses: 14
Number of studies: 768
Number of students: 88,254
Number of effects: 6,401
Weighted mean effect size: 0.83
Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly	Wagner	Causal relations between the development of phonological processing abilities and the acquisition of reading skills: a meta-analysis	1988	Phonological processing abilities	16	NA	1,766	0.38
Journal of Educational Psychology	Bus & van IJzendoorn	Phonological awareness and early reading: A meta-analysis of experimental training studies	1999	Phonological awareness training	70	5,408	85	0.73
Review of Educational Research	Swanson, Trainin, Necoechea, & Hammill	Rapid naming, phonological awareness, and reading: A meta-analysis of the correlation evidence	2003	Rapid naming, phonological awareness	35	3,568	2,257	0.93
Journal of Educational Psychology	Araujo, Reis, Petersson, & Faisca	Rapid Automatized Naming and Reading Performance: A Meta-Analysis	2015	Rapid automatized naming and reading	137	28,826	857	0.95
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education	Mayberry, del Guidice, & Lieberman	Reading achievement in relation to phonological coding and awareness in deaf readers: A meta-analysis	2011	Phonological coding in deaf readers	57	NA	57	0.35
Zeitschrift fur Entwicklungspsychologie und Padagogische Psychologie	Fischer & Pfost	How Effective Are Trainings of Phonological Awareness? A Meta-Analysis of German Language Training Programs and Their Effects on he Acquisition of Reading and Spelling Skills	2015	Phonological awareness training	19	NA	22	0.36
Journal of Educational Psychology	Ruan, Georgiou, Song, Li, & Shu	Does writing system influence the associations between phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and reading? A meta-analysis	2018	Phonological and morphological awareness in English and Chinese	64	18,420	127	0.87
Studies in Psychology and Behavior	Pan, Deng, Lin, & Liu	A meta-analysis of the relationship between Chinese students' English phonological awareness and reading achievement.	2019	Phonological awareness & achievement	53	NA	53	0.77
Journal of Educational Psychology	Yang, Yan, Ruan, Ku, Lo, Peng, & McBride	Relations among phonological processing skills and mathematics in children: A meta-analysis.	2021	Phonological processing on math achievement	94	NA	826	0.70
Frontiers in Psychology	Chen & Zhao	Reading-related skills associated with acquisition of Chinese as a second/foreign language: A meta-analysis.	2022	Phonological skills in Chinese reading	42	1,103	79	0.90
Language Learning	Míguez-Álvarez, Cuevas-Alonso & Saavedra	Relationships between phonological awareness and reading in Spanish: A meta-analysis.	2022	Phonological skills in Spanish	47	7,956	47	0.80
Journal of Behavioral Education	Cooper, Hebert, Goodrich, Leiva, Lin, Peng, & Nelson	Effects of Automaticity Training on Reading Performance: A Meta-Analysis	2022	Automaticity training	11	NA	83	0.28
Scientific Studies of Reading	Erbeli, Rice, Xu, Bishop, & Goodrich	A Meta-Analysis on the Optimal Cumulative Dosage of Early Phonemic Awareness Instruction.	2024	Phonological instruction at maximum dosage (10 hours)	16	1,155	35	0.74
Journal of Educational Psychology	Zhang, Ke, & Mo	Morphology in reading comprehension among school-aged readers of English: A synthesis and meta-analytic structural equation modeling study.	2023	Morphological teaching	107	21,818	107	1.27
TOTAL/AVERAGE						768	88,254	6,401	0.72