Abstract

MOTA, Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da; SANTOS, Acácia Aparecida Angeli dos; GUIMARAES, Silvia Brilhante  and  CONTI, Carolina. Validity evidence for the Protocol for Phonological Awareness Task (PPAT). Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.14, n.3, pp.933-948. ISSN 1808-4281.

The present study investigated the validity of the instrument Protocol for Phonological Awareness assessment". Two-hundred and seventeen children drawn from public schools enrolled in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of elementary school participated in the research. The children were interviewed in four sessions in which the application of the following instruments was carried out in four sessions: RACF, TDE: reading subtest and the WISC III: vocabulary and digit subtest. Evidence of validity for discrimination between series was found. The results indicated that phonological awareness develops throughout the first years of schooling. Evidence of validity for RACF was also met when its association with other tasks such as vocabulary and working memory was found. In summary, our results show that the RACF is a task that helps you access the metaphonological ability of children.

Keywords : criterion validity; metalinguistic awareness; linguistic abilities.

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