TY  - GEN
A1  - Kempert, Sebastian Benjamin
A1  - Götz, Regina
A1  - Blatter, Kristine
A1  - Tibken, Catharina
A1  - Artelt, Cordula
A1  - Schneider, Wolfgang
A1  - Stanat, Petra
T1  - Training Early Literacy Related Skills
N2  - Well-developed phonological awareness skills are a core prerequisite for early literacy development. Although effective phonological awareness training programs exist, children at risk often do not reach similar levels of phonological awareness after the intervention as children with normally developed skills. Based on theoretical considerations and first promising results the present study explores effects of an early musical training in combination with a conventional phonological training in children with weak phonological awareness skills. Using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design and measurements across a period of 2 years, we tested the effects of two interventions: a consecutive combination of a musical and a phonological training and a phonological training alone. The design made it possible to disentangle effects of the musical training alone as well the effects of its combination with the phonological training. The outcome measures of these groups were compared with the control group with multivariate analyses, controlling for a number of background variables. The sample included N = 424 German-speaking children aged 4–5 years at the beginning of the study. We found a positive relationship between musical abilities and phonological awareness. Yet, whereas the well-established phonological training produced the expected effects, adding a musical training did not contribute significantly to phonological awareness development. Training effects were partly dependent on the initial level of phonological awareness. Possible reasons for the lack of training effects in the musical part of the combination condition as well as practical implications for early literacy education are discussed.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 311 
KW  - early literacy
KW  - musical training
KW  - phonological awareness
KW  - phonological training
KW  - preschool children
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10194
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-101943
ER  -