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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... sounds - learners have to construct new conceptions about the relationship between words and meaning in written texts . Based on research studies mainly from French- and Spanish - speaking countries , they show that the ability to grasp ...
... sounds - learners have to construct new conceptions about the relationship between words and meaning in written texts . Based on research studies mainly from French- and Spanish - speaking countries , they show that the ability to grasp ...
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... sound segments as mature spellers . Besides this impact on the conceptuali- zation of the sound level of speech , experience with print may also influence children's lexical awareness , and Ehri presents some data to substantiate this ...
... sound segments as mature spellers . Besides this impact on the conceptuali- zation of the sound level of speech , experience with print may also influence children's lexical awareness , and Ehri presents some data to substantiate this ...
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... sounds are structured to form words and how this structure can be represented on paper . While Pidgeon mainly refers to the early stages of reading , Singer is concerned with both beginning and skilled readers in his chapter " Learning ...
... sounds are structured to form words and how this structure can be represented on paper . While Pidgeon mainly refers to the early stages of reading , Singer is concerned with both beginning and skilled readers in his chapter " Learning ...
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... sounds are then discussed . After considering featural concepts of language , Valtin goes on to discuss the child's understanding of functions of oral language . Evidence is presented that preschool children are implicitly aware of the ...
... sounds are then discussed . After considering featural concepts of language , Valtin goes on to discuss the child's understanding of functions of oral language . Evidence is presented that preschool children are implicitly aware of the ...
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... sound and meaning , he proceeds to construct the lexicon and the grammatical rules . The child's position is different from that of the linguist mainly in that his general theory of language is innately given , and superior to any ...
... sound and meaning , he proceeds to construct the lexicon and the grammatical rules . The child's position is different from that of the linguist mainly in that his general theory of language is innately given , and superior to any ...
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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