PERFORMANCE IN PHONOLOGICAL AND SYNTHETIC SKILLS OF BILINGUAL AND MONOLINGUAL CHILDREN IN LITERACY
Keywords: Education, bilingualism, children's language, assessment, Speech Therapy.
Introduction: Language acquisition happens through the interaction of children with their families and society. This study will consist of two scientific articles: the first from an integrative review. And the second, assessment of phonological and syntactic skills of children in the process of literacy in bilingual education. Objective: To verify the performance in phonological and syntactic skills of monolingual bilingual children in literacy phase. Method: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative study. Children from grades 1 to 3 of elementary school I will participate from one bilingual school and one monolingual school. Participants will be divided into six groups: Study Group I (GI): 20 children from the 1st year of bilingual study; Study Group II (GII): 20 children from the 2nd year of bilingual study and Study Group III (GIII): composed of 20 children from the 3rd year of bilingual study; control group I (ICG): 20 children from the 1st year of monolingual study; control group II (GCII): 20 children from the 2nd year of monolingual study; control group III (GCIII): 20 children from the 3rd year of monolingual study. Children will be assessed for phonological awareness, phonological working memory, rapid automatic naming and syntactic awareness skills in Portuguese and English. Expected results: It is hoped that this work can bring contributions in the educational field, regarding the connection between language and metalanguage skills to understand the process of literacy of bilingual children. Thus, it will be possible to develop contributions to this type of education.