2.3.3 Debates In Reading Flashcards
What’s the ‘Traditional’ view/‘bottom-up’ approach
Prioritises language
View is about having the reader having a set of skills that are built upon to gain full comprehension
What does Dole (et al) believe
The text holds clues, meaning and opportunities to learn and that it’s the reader’s job to decipher these
Nunan believes …
Child learns to decode written symbols into their aural equivalents
McCarthy says the traditional view is …
Less ‘bottom-up’ and more ‘outside-in’ in the sense that meaning already exists, and the reader has to take this meaning in
‘Cognitive view/‘top-down’ approach
Knowledge must be in place at the base
Rumelhart believes …
As a result…
Reading requires ‘building blocks of cognition’ in order for the reader to be able to process the information they’re receiving Missing schema (building blocks) can prevent child from properly understanding and processing what information means
Goodman states that …
The reader is at heart in the process of learning to reader and that the reader makes hypotheses as they read to confirm or reject ideas
What’s the metacognitive view
Reader thinks about what they’re doing when they’re reading
What does Block believe
Reading is an active process
Share believes …
There’s a process called phonological recoding
Klein (et al) believes …
Metacognitive readers do following whilst reading a text
Sociologists who support the ‘traditional’ view. 3
Dote (et al)
Nunan
McCarthy
Sociologists who support the ‘cognitive’ view. 2
Rumelhart
Goodman
Sociologists who believe the ‘metacognitive’ view. 3
Block
Share
Klein (et al)
