Exam 2: chapter 7 Flashcards
What Major Language Development Milestones
Occur in the Preschool Period?
_______ Language
________ Literacy
Decontextualized Language
Emergent Literacy
grounded in our immediate context– the here and now
Contextualized language:
earliest period of learning about reading and writing
Emergent Literacy
Children’s literacy abilities depend upon the ____ _____ skills they began to acquire in infancy
and toddlerhood
oral language
ability to view language as an object of attention
Metalinguistic ability
Emergent Literacy
children’s knowledge about the letters of the alphabet
Alphabet knowledge
Emergent Literacy
children’s understanding of the forms and functions of written language
Print awareness
children’s sensitivity to the sound units that make up speech
Phonological awareness
Multiple forces interact to influence the order by
which children learn the individual names of letters
Alphabet Knowledge
4 complementary hypotheses that characterize the
order by which preschool children learn the names
of individual alphabet letters:
“learn those letters earlier which
occur in their own names”
Own-name advantage
4 complementary hypotheses that characterize the
order by which preschool children learn the names
of individual alphabet letters:
“learn earlier those alphabet letters for which the name of the letter is in the letter’s pronunciation”
Letter-name pronunciation effect
4 complementary hypotheses that characterize the
order by which preschool children learn the names
of individual alphabet letters:
“letters occurring earlier in the alphabet
string are learned before letters occurring later in the alphabet string”
Letter-order hypothesis
4 complementary hypotheses that characterize the
order by which preschool children learn the names
of individual alphabet letters:
“letters for which corresponding consonantal phonemes are learned early in development are learned earlier than letters for which corresponding consonantal phonemes are learned later”
Consonant-order hypothesis:
