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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... words and meaning in written texts . Based on research studies mainly from French- and Spanish - speaking countries , they show that the ability to grasp the alphabetic principle is preceded by a slow development of various conceptual ...
... words and meaning in written texts . Based on research studies mainly from French- and Spanish - speaking countries , they show that the ability to grasp the alphabetic principle is preceded by a slow development of various conceptual ...
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... written and oral language ( Ferreiro , 1978 ; Ferreiro & Teberosky , 1979 ) or their knowl- edge about concepts of writing ( Bissex , 1980 ; Clay , 1975 ) . These approaches seem to be very promising because the child's conceptions and ...
... written and oral language ( Ferreiro , 1978 ; Ferreiro & Teberosky , 1979 ) or their knowl- edge about concepts of writing ( Bissex , 1980 ; Clay , 1975 ) . These approaches seem to be very promising because the child's conceptions and ...
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... language , has only been considered so far in its usefulness for reading and writing , and undoubtedly it is also ... written language : those " features of the written words which encourage awareness of language may also encourage ...
... language , has only been considered so far in its usefulness for reading and writing , and undoubtedly it is also ... written language : those " features of the written words which encourage awareness of language may also encourage ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Task Awareness in the Development of Reading کے | 27 |
Insights from | 57 |
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