Language Awareness and Learning to Read

acquired activities adults alphabetic alphabetic principle alveolar flap analysis analyzed aspects basal readers beginning readers behavior chapter child concepts correlations developmental effect Ehri evidence experimental function function words Gleitman grade grade-one graphemes hypothesis influence judgments kindergarten language acquisition language awareness LARR test learner learning to read letters lexical Liberman linguistic awareness listening literacy logographic Mattingly Mattingly’s meaning metacognitive metalinguistic morpheme morphophonemic operativity oral language orthography percent perceptions of reading performance phonemic awareness phonemic segmentation phonetic recoding phonological preschool presented print awareness pronunciations psycholinguistic reading ability reading achievement reading and spelling reading and writing reading instruction reading process relationship representation responses scores semantic sentence seriation short-term memory silent letters sounds speech spoken language strategies structure subjects subskills suggests syllable symbols syntactic synthesis task awareness teachers teaching theory tion understanding units of print utterance Valtin visual vocabulary vowel written language