EN
Phonological awareness is a term of very complex defi nitions. The diversity concerns in particular the scope of the notion (there are both very narrow definitions of phonological awareness, where it is identified virtually exclusively with phonematic hearing, and very broad ones). The available tests enabled me to examine the following aspects of phonological awareness among second class primary school pupils: ability to differentiate phonemes (comparison of paronyms), phonological skills, that is operating on phonological units (analysis of the phonemic structure of paronyms, syllable and sound synthesis and analysis of artificial words), phonological echoic memory (direct memory of artificial words), as well as echoic perception and sensory-motor coordination (precisely, echoic-motor one). The study has shown that after the fi rst year of school education most of the examined children achieved results that were inadequate to the adopted standards.