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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... Valtin CHAPTER 12 Awareness of Features and Functions of Language . 227 Renate Valtin References .. Author Index . Subject Index . . 261 291 299 Contributors Ioanna Berthoud - Papandropoulou , University of Geneva , viii Contents.
... Valtin CHAPTER 12 Awareness of Features and Functions of Language . 227 Renate Valtin References .. Author Index . Subject Index . . 261 291 299 Contributors Ioanna Berthoud - Papandropoulou , University of Geneva , viii Contents.
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... functional aspects ; second , a link should be drawn between theoretical insights and practical consequences for methods of learning to read . Last , but not least , the authors represent a wide range of conti- nents and countries ...
... functional aspects ; second , a link should be drawn between theoretical insights and practical consequences for methods of learning to read . Last , but not least , the authors represent a wide range of conti- nents and countries ...
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... functions and linguistic features of speech and writing . Downing outlines a variety of metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities that are involved in task awareness in reading . He differentiates two types of linguistic concepts ...
... functions and linguistic features of speech and writing . Downing outlines a variety of metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities that are involved in task awareness in reading . He differentiates two types of linguistic concepts ...
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... strategies . After a review of Anglo - American studies on phonemic segmentation , some newer European studies are presented . They provide evi- dence that phonemic synthesis and analysis develop as a function 6 1 Introduction.
... strategies . After a review of Anglo - American studies on phonemic segmentation , some newer European studies are presented . They provide evi- dence that phonemic synthesis and analysis develop as a function 6 1 Introduction.
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... functions of oral language . Evidence is presented that preschool children are implicitly aware of the communicative function of lan- guage . Moreover , as one study of metacommunicative behavior shows , preschool children are able to ...
... functions of oral language . Evidence is presented that preschool children are implicitly aware of the communicative function of lan- guage . Moreover , as one study of metacommunicative behavior shows , preschool children are able to ...
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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