Language Awareness and Learning to ReadJ. Downing, Renate 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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... literacy . Downing conducted two studies of the influence of home background on the development of children's concepts of the purposes of literacy . Both studies used the Orientation to Literacy test developed by Evanechko , Ollila ...
... literacy . Downing conducted two studies of the influence of home background on the development of children's concepts of the purposes of literacy . Both studies used the Orientation to Literacy test developed by Evanechko , Ollila ...
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... Literacy Anne Sinclair and Ioanna Berthoud - Papandropoulou Introduction Some of the many currents of research and theory in the field of literacy devel- opment are concerned with questions of metalinguistic thinking . By their very ...
... Literacy Anne Sinclair and Ioanna Berthoud - Papandropoulou Introduction Some of the many currents of research and theory in the field of literacy devel- opment are concerned with questions of metalinguistic thinking . By their very ...
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... literacy . This approach may also serve to elucidate general questions concerning knowledge about natural language , independently of its particular form or use . In a deliberate attempt to focus on the links between thinking about ...
... literacy . This approach may also serve to elucidate general questions concerning knowledge about natural language , independently of its particular form or use . In a deliberate attempt to focus on the links between thinking about ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Task Awareness in the Development of Reading کے | 27 |
Insights from | 57 |
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