Ferrer-Muñoz, Aleida

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The design and creation of a bilingual phonemic awareness test for Puerto Rico
(2007-12) Ferrer-Muñoz, Aleida; Dayton, Elizabeth; College of Arts and Sciences - Arts; Woodall, Billy; Blau, Eileen; Morales Caro, Betsy; Department of English; Sharma, Anand D.
This thesis had three objectives. The first was to design and create a bilingual phonemic awareness test (BPAT) for Puerto Rico, where Spanish is a first language and English is a second language, learned primarily through the schools, for the vast majority of speakers. The BPAT includes five of the eight phonemic awareness skills recommended by The Reading First Program through the No Child Left Behind Act: phoneme isolation, phoneme identity, phoneme categorization, phoneme blending, and phoneme segmentation. It uses photographs and was designed taking cultural and linguistic appropriateness into consideration. The second and third objectives were to establish validity and reliability of the BPAT. The BPAT was administered to 45 typical learning students in Kindergarten, first, and second grades in three public schools in western Puerto Rico. Statistical analyses, including analysis of variance, regression analysis, and correlation analysis, were used to establish concurrent criterion related validity and internal reliability.