Phonological Awareness and Reading in Children with and without Dyslexia in English and Kannada

By : Shymala K Venkatesh, Anand Siddaiah

Page No: 369-378

Abstract
The present study examines the performance on phonological awareness tasks between children with dyslexia and with their age matched controls in the languages that vary in orthographic consistency (English and Kannada). Also an attempt was made to see how phonological awareness correlates with reading ability. The study consisted sample of 100 children (50 children with dyslexia and 50 age-matched children). All the participants were administered phonological awareness tasks, reading measures. Result revealed that (a) Children with dyslexia were significantly poorer on all tasks of phonological awareness then their age matched controls in both the writing system. (b) Children with dyslexia were found to be slower in reading measure. (C) Tasks of phonological awareness were significantly correlated to reading accuracy and reading fluency measures for children with dyslexia in English. (D) In Kannada, phonological awareness tasks correlated only with reading accuracy but not with reading fluency.

Authors :
Anand Siddaiah : PhD Research Scholar—Department of Psychology, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India 570006.
Shymala K Venkatesh : Research Scholar —Department of Zoology, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India, 570006