Abstract

ANDRES, María Laura; JURIC, Lorena Canet  and  CONI, Ana García. Syntactic Awareness in 5- to 8-year-old children: Design of an instrument and evaluation of its psychometrical properties. Aval. psicol. [online]. 2010, vol.9, n.2, pp. 199-210. ISSN 1677-0471.

Syntactic awareness (SA) is a metalinguistic skill linked to reading performance and reading comprehension. At present, there are not enough Spanish language studies that deal with this relationship. The aim of this work is to present an instrument that measures SA in our Spanish-speaking context. This instrument, which was administered to 208 5- to 8-years-old, consists of 20 items that assess performance in different grammatical categories. We explored the factorial structure of the instrument, the construct validity and the presence of socio-demographic differences. The results show two factors, and an adequate level of internal consistency. Significant correlations with reading and other metalinguistic skills tests were found, and significant differences in socio-demographic variables were observed. Therefore, we conclude that the instrument is valid and reliable for assessing SA.

Keywords : Syntactic awareness; Reading; Validity; Reliability.

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