Research questions
- To what extent can students develop their phonological awareness in elementary English school classes?
- To what extent can word writing instruction assist students in developing their phoneme awareness?
- To what extent can writing instruction improve students’ recognition of sound and letter correspondence?
June: Understand sounds
Pre/post 意識調査, game (Circle the picture whose first sound is /ae/)
- Japanese sounds can be written in Hiragana. English sounds are written with letters. How are Japanese and English sounds different?
- Do you see English words when you walk around town? If so, what words have you seen?
- 私はいつか英語を覚えられると思う。
- 私は英語の勉強がおもしろいと思う。
- 私は英語の音を聞き分けることができる。
October: Write words while understanding the sounds
Pattern
- 意識調査 (1)
- Pre-test (1)
- Classes (1) Recognizing and understanding English sounds
- Class questionnaires (1)
- Post-test (1)
- Pre-test (2)
- Classes (2) Understanding how English sounds are written
- Class questionnaires
- Post-test (2)
- 意識調査(2)
Blue book
The type of teaching approach that McGuinness believes is best is one which includes phoneme identification and sequencing (segmenting, blending, stretching). She recommends a linguistics phonics approach which starts with sounds and then goes to letters.
Next time:
- pre/post test
- questionnaire
- class plans
- confirm the blue book a little more