Language Awareness and Learning to ReadJ. Downing, R. Valtin During the 1970s there was a rapid increase in interest in metacognition and metalinguistics. The impetus came from linguistics, psychology, and psycho linguistics. But with rather unusual rapidity the work from these scientific dis ciplines was taken over in education. This new direction in these various areas of academic study was taken simultaneously by several different investigators. Although they had varying emphases, their work sometimes appears to be over lapping; despite this, it has been rather difficult to find a consensus. This is reflected in the varying terminology used by these independent investigators "linguistic awareness," "metacognition," "metalinguistic ability," "task aware ness," "lexical awareness," and so on. For educators these developments presented a glittering array of new ideas that promised to throw light on children's thinking processes in learning how to read. Many reading researchers and graduate students have perceived this as a new frontier for the development of theory and research. However, the variety of independent theoretical approaches and their accompanying terminologies has been somewhat confusing. |
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... printed language influence children's competencies with speech . She claims that when children learn to read and spell , they acquire a visual representational system which enables them to see what they hear and say 4 1 Introduction.
... printed language influence children's competencies with speech . She claims that when children learn to read and spell , they acquire a visual representational system which enables them to see what they hear and say 4 1 Introduction.
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... acquiring the grammar of his native language is rather in the position of a linguist ( Chomsky , 1965 ) . Given a theory of language specifying the struc- tural properties that all grammars share , and data as to correspondences between ...
... acquiring the grammar of his native language is rather in the position of a linguist ( Chomsky , 1965 ) . Given a theory of language specifying the struc- tural properties that all grammars share , and data as to correspondences between ...
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... acquire language includes the ability to compute the optimal set of analytic strategies for a given grammar ( Fodor ... acquiring far exceeds the functional requirements of performance . But if this is so , we should not find it ...
... acquire language includes the ability to compute the optimal set of analytic strategies for a given grammar ( Fodor ... acquiring far exceeds the functional requirements of performance . But if this is so , we should not find it ...
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... acquiring English , mastered the Laxing , Diphthongization , and Vowel Shift rules , and he has inferred that [ hiyl ] and [ hel0 ] can both be derived from / hēl / , / 0 / being a separate morpheme . Thus , he has / hēl / and / hēl + 0 ...
... acquiring English , mastered the Laxing , Diphthongization , and Vowel Shift rules , and he has inferred that [ hiyl ] and [ hel0 ] can both be derived from / hēl / , / 0 / being a separate morpheme . Thus , he has / hēl / and / hēl + 0 ...
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... acquired by the speaker - hearer . If the reader is to recognize words efficiently , it is important for him not only to have such knowledge ( phonological maturity ) but to have access to it ( linguistic awareness ) , just as he did ...
... acquired by the speaker - hearer . If the reader is to recognize words efficiently , it is important for him not only to have such knowledge ( phonological maturity ) but to have access to it ( linguistic awareness ) , just as he did ...
Contents
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Insights from | 57 |
Childrens Thinking About Language and Their | 78 |
Cognitive Development and Units of Print in Early | 93 |
How Orthography Alters Spoken Language | 119 |
Links | 148 |
Theory and Practice in Learning to Read | 173 |
Multiple | 192 |
The Development of Metalinguistic Abilities | 207 |
Awareness of Features and Functions | 227 |
References | 261 |
Author Index | 300 |
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