Project: RYE - Time to raise your eyes
Investigating phonological training in its context.
Project information
Project manager
Annika Andersson
Other project members
Corrado Matta, Linda Fälth, Sanna Kraft
Participating organisations
Linnaeus University
Finansier
The Board of Teacher Education, NLU – NLU’s Strategic Initiatives
Timetable
2024-2028
Subject
Swedish (Department of Swedish, Faculty of Arts and Humanities), pedagogy (Department of Pedagogy, Faculty of Social Sciences)
Research group
Linnaeus University Language, Cognition and Culture Lab (LiLa Lab)
More about the project
Development of literacy is essential for academic success and is causally related with phonological awareness (PA). Though research has shown PA interventions in preschools to positively affect PA and subsequent literacy, it is unclear how the intervention generates its effects.
Most studies investigate the effects of short intense PA interventions implemented by researchers in the field in contrast to how it should be implemented (a full year by the teachers). Also, it is not clear how much of the effect can be attributed to the intervention itself, and how much to the specific implementation of the intervention or secondary factors such as planned or spontaneous play with language that arises from the introduction of the intervention.
We will study longitudinal effects of a PA intervention with multi-sensory methodology implemented by preschool teachers as part of the regular curriculum during a full year, as it is meant to be implemented. We will investigate the results from regular preschool curriculum and the intervention in four preschool-classrooms with behavioral tests of PA and literacy, and neurophysiologically, to investigate predictors of response to intervention and changes in phonological processing with intervention.
Crucially, we include observational measures to investigate the impact of the implementation of the intervention and how it is integrated into the school context. Results will thus be directly relevant for teachers in addition to researchers.
This project is part of the research in the Linnaeus University Language, Cognition and Culture Lab (LiLa Lab)