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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... experimental and child psychology , and education . The varied terminology reflects the differing focuses of these several disciplines , but one can detect two consistent threads running through these varied works . One thread has a ...
... experimental and child psychology , and education . The varied terminology reflects the differing focuses of these several disciplines , but one can detect two consistent threads running through these varied works . One thread has a ...
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... - ent orthographies require different degrees of linguistic awareness . Second , he presents some experimental evidence suggesting that orthographic information in reading is phonetically recoded and stored in short - term 2 1 Introduction.
... - ent orthographies require different degrees of linguistic awareness . Second , he presents some experimental evidence suggesting that orthographic information in reading is phonetically recoded and stored in short - term 2 1 Introduction.
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... experimental evidence is available , the results are consistent with the view that phonemic segmentation develops largely as a consequence of learning to read and that the two interact with each other . Some open theoretical questions ...
... experimental evidence is available , the results are consistent with the view that phonemic segmentation develops largely as a consequence of learning to read and that the two interact with each other . Some open theoretical questions ...
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... experimental inference rather than by linguistic analysis . Though performance knowledge is not the same thing as grammatical knowl- edge , the two must somehow be related . Which strategies it is appropriate to try in what order ...
... experimental inference rather than by linguistic analysis . Though performance knowledge is not the same thing as grammatical knowl- edge , the two must somehow be related . Which strategies it is appropriate to try in what order ...
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... experimental : Performance in tasks that are similar to reading can be compared with performance in tasks involving production or perception of spoken language . What aspects of an utterance do practical orthographies transcribe ? The ...
... experimental : Performance in tasks that are similar to reading can be compared with performance in tasks involving production or perception of spoken language . What aspects of an utterance do practical orthographies transcribe ? The ...
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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