The_Role_of_Phonological_Awareness_Development_in_Young_Chinese_EFL_Learners.1

The findings indicate that (1) strongpositive associations exist between English/Chinese PA and English/Chinese abilities for all subjects; (2) skills in phoneme segmentation and phoneme deletion acquiredin Chinese are transferable to English for young Chinese EFL beginning learners; and(3) skills in first phoneme oddity and initial phoneme deletion are good..