The Role of Phonological Awareness in Biliteracy Acquisition Among Hong Kong Chinese Kindergarteners Who Learn English-as-a-Second Language (ESL)

Phonological awareness has been repeatedly reported as important for learning to read in different orthographies. It is important to understand what specific levels of phonological awareness are involved in Chinese and English for Chinese children who learn English-as-a-second-language (ESL). Measures of phonological awareness, word reading, letter name knowledge, receptive vocabulary, and non-verbal intelligence were administered to 94 Hong...