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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... percent of the responses were meaningless ; 8 percent of the responses referred to comprehension or understanding ; and 56 percent of the responses emphasized word recognition or decoding . Over one half of the students seemed to know ...
... percent of the responses were meaningless ; 8 percent of the responses referred to comprehension or understanding ; and 56 percent of the responses emphasized word recognition or decoding . Over one half of the students seemed to know ...
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... percent in category two ; and 11 percent in category three . Trends from grade one to grade six were noted in categories two and three . With few exceptions , word - recognition responses decreased through the grades while mean- ing ...
... percent in category two ; and 11 percent in category three . Trends from grade one to grade six were noted in categories two and three . With few exceptions , word - recognition responses decreased through the grades while mean- ing ...
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... percent of the explained variance of oral reading , for 40 percent of reading comprehension , and for 31 percent of spelling at the end of first grade . At the end of second grade the variance accounted for by the battery dropped to 22 ...
... percent of the explained variance of oral reading , for 40 percent of reading comprehension , and for 31 percent of spelling at the end of first grade . At the end of second grade the variance accounted for by the battery dropped to 22 ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Task Awareness in the Development of Reading کے | 27 |
Insights from | 57 |
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