Phonological Awareness and Reading Skills: Impact in the Digital Society
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study investigates the factors influencing the development of phonological awareness and its impact on reading skills among third-year basic education students. Employing a descriptive-exploratory approach at a correlational level, it is based on a comprehensive review of bibliographic sources and field-collected data. The Phonological Knowledge Evaluation Test (PECO) was used to measure phonological awareness, evaluating the manipulation of syllables and phonemes. To assess reading skills, the revised Battery of Evaluation of Reading Processes (PROLEC-R) was utilized. The results reveal significant associations between phonological awareness and lexical, semantic, and syntactic processes, although difficulties in reading comprehension persist. It is concluded that reading challenges could be linked to communicational variables within the context of a digital society, dominated by multimedia stimuli. This study highlights the importance of strengthening phonological awareness from the early stages of education to improve reading skills in basic education students. Received: 19 January 2025 / Accepted: 20 February 2025 / Published: 06 March 2025
Institutions: Politecnica Salesiana University, Universidad Indoamérica
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408173280