Implicações da consciência fonológica na aquisição fonológica de L2 em nível de percepção.

Abstract

This work seeks to understand and discuss how phonological awareness can contribute to L2 phonological acquisition. The discussion is based on a theoretical investigation, supported by several empirical research on L2 phonological acquisition which focused on L2 perception or comprehension. Its purpose is to understand the convergences and divergences among such investigations and thus build an insight of how phonological awareness can contribute to L2 phonological acquisition. It was detected that at the level of perception, phonological awareness acts positively in the L2 phonological acquisition, contributing to a more effective communication, in view of the phonological awareness performance in the L2 sounds comprehensibility and intelligibility. Therefore, data, results and discussions of the analysed papers confirm the importance of phonological awareness in L2 phonological acquisition, as well as its relevance regarding the acquisition of L2-specific linguistic forms. In this sense, phonological awareness enables learners to have a broader view of the L1 phonological system, the L2 phonological system, as well as the similarities and differences between them. Having this ability, learners perform more efficiently on L2 comprehension.