PERFORMANCE IN PHONOLOGICAL AND SYNTHETIC SKILLS OF BILINGUAL AND MONOLINGUAL CHILDREN IN LITERACY
Education, bilingualism, children's language, assessment, Speech Therapy.
Introduction: Language acquisition occurs through the child's interaction with family members and society. This study is composed of three scientific articles: the first is an integrative literature review and the others, original studies through the assessment of linguistic and metalinguistic skills in bilingual children. Objective: Objective: to verify the performance in phonological processing, syntactic awareness, vocabulary and reading of bilingual children in literacy phase. Method: Cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative study, conducted with students from the 1st to the 5th of elementary school. Study 1: 10 children for the bilingual group and 5 for monolingual children from the 1st year of elementary school. Study 2: 32 children, subdivided into: G1: five children from the 1st year; G2: five children from the 2nd year; G3: eight children from the 3rd year; G4: five children from the 4th year; G5: nine children from the 5th year. Children were assessed in Portuguese for phonological awareness, syntactic awareness, phonological working memory, rapid automatic naming, and reading skills. Results: In study 1, significant differences were found in phonological awareness (phonemic and total), rapid automatic naming (objects), and reading of pseudowords. In study 2, it was noted that children with higher education had better performance in all skills assessed. Conclusion: exposure to a second language in a sequential way makes children more susceptible to the sounds of the language, presenting benefits in certain phonological processing skills, having a positive impact on reading performance.