Phonemic awareness has been known as the most important variable for developing reading skills. Although various training curricula and programs were developed in order to cultivate the phonemic awareness, this study introduces a new phonemic awareness curriculum, called Tturtletalk training program. The principle of this program in learning is pronouncing each letter of a word as slowly as possible in reading, making a child focus on each phoneme of a word. The children trained by this program have shown better phonemic awareness test score than those trained by a current reading training curriculum. The implication of these results and the prospect of the Turtletalk program were discussed.

Key words: phonemic awareness, Turtle Talk training, children, reading acquisition