| Through an experiment the present study investigated the relationship between Chinese phonological awareness and English proficiency of listening and speaking of Chinese adult ESL learners. Forty junior and senior English majors from Foreign Language Institute of Fujian Normal University took part in the study. Two tasks administered were English non-words reading test and Chinese phonological awareness tests which were composed of auditory tone awareness, auditory onset awareness, auditory rime awareness and visual syllable awareness. In addition, the subjects' speaking and listening results were collected from the Z-scores of their all final exam records. The results showed that Chinese phonological awareness was significantly correlated with English proficiency of listening and speaking. Specifically Chinese onset awareness, rime awareness, and syllable awareness could respectively account for English speaking, listening and phonological processing abilities to some extend. The results suggest that Chinese phonological awareness, which can transfer to English phonological awareness, plays a significant role in English speaking and listening abilities.
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