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Child Language Acquisition - Reading
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- 1What is semiotics?The study of signs
- 2How do children learn the building blocks of reading?Listening books being read to them, turning the pages, looking at pictures.
- 3Features of children's first booksInteraction with audience
Suggesting values
Rhyme and other phonological devices
repetition and parallel sentence structures
semantic fields - 4How do babies use books?Babies love to observe and everytime you read to your child it is reinforcing basic concepts like turning pages, and following text from left to right
- 5What is Bruner's LASS theory?Language acquisition support system
Suggests parents encourage speech by using books to interact with children. - 6What are the four phases of this process?gaining attention - getting the babies attention of a picture
Query - asking baby what the object is
Label - Telling the baby what the object in the picture is
Feedback - responding to the babies utterences - 7How do Baker and Freebody believe spoken language is different from reading?1. Spoken language does not take up physical space
2. Written language is repeatable and permenant
3. It is non-interactive
4. It is separate from its addressor - 8What is the look and say method?A technique which teaches children to read words as whole units rather than breaking the word down into individual letters or groups of letters. Eventually children learn to sight read the word.
Used most in 1980s and 90s - 9What are the advantages of the look and say method?1. Whole word recognition is used by adults to read all familiar words
2. A child can learn to recognise any word using the look and say method
3. Teaching method is easy to grasp for the parent as it is based on words rather than individual sounds.
4. Children initially show higher reading levels - 10What are the disadvantages of the look and say method?1. In many cases children cannot read words they have not been taught
2. Children limited to reading books which contain words they have learnt
3. Said human memory cannot memorise more than 2 000 abstract symbols. We use 50 000 words daily - 11What is the phonics method?Involves breaking up the words into alphabet sounds.
Most children in the 1960s and 70s were taught to write with the phonics method - 12What are analytic phonics?Has children analysing a word, taking clues from recognition of a whole word, the initial sound and a context
- 13What are synthetic phonics?Involves no guessing. It is blending phonemes to make a word
- 14What are the advantages of the phonics method?1. Children learn the rules of letter pronunciation
2. Children can read words they have never seen before by applying the rules they have learnt
3. Better long term method - 15What are the disadvantages of the phonics method?1. Takes longer for children to learn how to read
2. Takes 1-2 years before children can read their first book - 16What is the reading cues method?When you encounter a word you do not know, you use the surrounding words to help determine what the word means.
- 17What are the advantages of the reading cues method?1. Stimulates critical thinking of the reader
2. For critical reader, it takes less time than going into a dictionary - 18What are the disadvantages of the reading cues method?1. Takes more time for beginner readers
2. Sometimes context clues are insufficient and can lead to mis-guessing - 19Ann Browne identified three basic approaches to the teaching of reading: What is the bottom up model?Text is decoded by matching letters to the sounds and building these to form a word
- 20What is the top down model?Readers predict the meaning of a text from what they already know about the structure and meaning of language
- 21What is the interactive model?The two approaches together
- 22How could Skinner's ideas about re-enforcement be useful to literacy acquisition?His view that learning takes place through positive reinforcement is perhaps evident in the way caregivers correct children's reading.
- 23Jeanne Chall's stages of reading development: Pre-reading and pseudo-reading1) Up to 6 years old.
2) 'Pretend reading' - Turning pages and repeating stories previously read to them
3) some letter word recognition
4) Predicting single words or next stage of story - 24Jeanne Chall's stages of reading development: Initial reading and decoding1) 6-7
1) Simple texts with high frequency lexis
2) Estimated 600 words known - 25Jeanne Chall's stages of reading development: Confirmation and fluency1) 7-8
2) Reads more quickly accurately and fluently
3) Estimated to know 3 000 words - 26Jeanne Chall's stages of reading development: reading for learning1) 9-14
2) Reading for knowledge and information becomes a motivation - 27What are reading scheme books?Books with differing linguistic choices with the primary purpose of teaching reading skills rather than entertaining
- 28What are the key linguistic features of reading schemes?1) Lexical repetition
2) syntactical repetition of structures
3) simple verbs
4) one sentence per line
5) limited use of modifiers
6) text image cohesion
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