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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J. Downing, R. Valtin. reading is phonetically recoded and stored in short - term memory used for spoken language , and that phonetic recoding has no connection with the character of the orthography since it occurs with logographies and ...
J. Downing, R. Valtin. reading is phonetically recoded and stored in short - term memory used for spoken language , and that phonetic recoding has no connection with the character of the orthography since it occurs with logographies and ...
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... short - term memory . Analysis of errors in short - term recall suggests that the information being stored is phonetic ( Wickelgren , 1965a , 1966 ) . However , since other sorts of linguistic information must obviously be stored in short - ...
... short - term memory . Analysis of errors in short - term recall suggests that the information being stored is phonetic ( Wickelgren , 1965a , 1966 ) . However , since other sorts of linguistic information must obviously be stored in short - ...
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... duration ( Sperling , 1960 ) . One might entertain the possibility of an " orthographic " short - term memory , analogous to " phonetic " short - term memory ; or of a " semantic " short - term memory , in which words were repre- sented ...
... duration ( Sperling , 1960 ) . One might entertain the possibility of an " orthographic " short - term memory , analogous to " phonetic " short - term memory ; or of a " semantic " short - term memory , in which words were repre- sented ...
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J. Downing, R. Valtin. short - term memory with an appropriate duration - no orthographic or semantic short - term memory , for example . Had such alternatives been available , the sub- jects in Wickelgren's test could have avoided the ...
J. Downing, R. Valtin. short - term memory with an appropriate duration - no orthographic or semantic short - term memory , for example . Had such alternatives been available , the sub- jects in Wickelgren's test could have avoided the ...
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... term memory , in other words , to treat each item on the list as a one - word sentence to be analyzed , and he succeeds in doing so for the early words on the list . The formation of the short - term phonetic repre- sentation appears to ...
... term memory , in other words , to treat each item on the list as a one - word sentence to be analyzed , and he succeeds in doing so for the early words on the list . The formation of the short - term phonetic repre- sentation appears 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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