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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... Units of Print in Early Reading .. 93 Alan J. Watson CHAPTER 7 How Orthography Alters Spoken Language Competencies in Children Learning to Read and Spell 119 Linnea C. Ehri CHAPTER 8 Learning to Attend to Sentence Structure : Links.
... Units of Print in Early Reading .. 93 Alan J. Watson CHAPTER 7 How Orthography Alters Spoken Language Competencies in Children Learning to Read and Spell 119 Linnea C. Ehri CHAPTER 8 Learning to Attend to Sentence Structure : Links.
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... reading , some others also present ideas about spelling , since both processes have many subskills in common . Mattingly , in his chapter " Reading , Linguistic Awareness and Language Acquisition , " presents a slightly altered version ...
... reading , some others also present ideas about spelling , since both processes have many subskills in common . Mattingly , in his chapter " Reading , Linguistic Awareness and Language Acquisition , " presents a slightly altered version ...
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... Reading . " His concern is the under- standing of units of print ( letters ... reading progress on a measure of linguistic awareness - the units of print ... Spell , " Ehri presents ample theoretical and empirical evidence to show how ...
... Reading . " His concern is the under- standing of units of print ( letters ... reading progress on a measure of linguistic awareness - the units of print ... Spell , " Ehri presents ample theoretical and empirical evidence to show how ...
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... spellings provide a view of words in speech , and letters provide a view of phonetic units within speech . The process of learning to read and spell teaches the child about the lexi- cal composition of sentences and the phonetic ...
... spellings provide a view of words in speech , and letters provide a view of phonetic units within speech . The process of learning to read and spell teaches the child about the lexi- cal composition of sentences and the phonetic ...
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... reading , Singer is concerned with both beginning and skilled readers in his chapter " Learning to Read and Skilled Reading ... ( spelling ) in school . Some research studies are presented that show how the preschool child's everyday concept of ...
... reading , Singer is concerned with both beginning and skilled readers in his chapter " Learning to Read and Skilled Reading ... ( spelling ) in school . Some research studies are presented that show how the preschool child's everyday concept of ...
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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