Research Article | Open Access
Phonological awareness and reading comprehension of second grade students in regular basic education
Isabel Menacho Vargas Francis Esmeralda Ibarguen Cueva July Rivera-Zamudio Luz LĂ©vano-Francia
Pages: 415-424
Abstract
The objective was to determine the relationship between phonological awareness
and reading comprehension in the students of the second grade of Primary
Education of regular basic education. Basic type study, correlational level, nonexperimental design, cross-sectional and the method was hypothetical deductive, the
sample consisted of 126 second grade students selected by simple random
probability sampling, for the data collection two questionnaires were used, for
phonological awareness, the Linguistic Segmentation Test and for reading
comprehension, the Battery Reading Process Test. Data analysis was performed
with the Rho Spearman correlation coefficient, concluding that phonological
awareness is significantly related to reading comprehension in second grade
students of regular basic education (r = 0.721; p <0.05)
Keywords
Phonological awareness; Syllabic; Intrasyllabic; Reading comprehension