Improving orthography in english as a foreign language, in first grade students through phonemic awareness activities

Abstract

The current research has the purpose of identifying, how through the implementation of some phonemic awareness activities in English as a foreign language on students of 1st grade in a private bilingual school, it was possible to change and improve the way students wrote. Based on some important concepts like phonemic awareness in English and the early literacy development in English as a foreign language, this research had the following purposes: first to collect important information about how the students were developing the writing skill in English as a foreign language in their daily routines, through different activities and second to provide an insight, about different meaningful phonemic awareness activities in English, that could help teachers to work with first grade students, that are dealing with their first approach to the writing skill in English and have some issues about how to develop the skill. The methodology in this project was of action research type, because through different observations and interventions, it was possible to identify and analyze the way students wrote in English in first grade, in order to organize and also implement some phonemic awareness activities in English.