Exam 2 Study Guide

Question 1

Phonological awareness

Answer 1

Refers to an individual’s awareness of the phonological structure, or sound structure, of words.

Question 2

Phonological processing

Answer 2

An auditory processing skill. It relates to words, but occurs in the absence of print. It involves detecting and discriminating differences in phonemes or speech sounds under conditions of little or no distraction or distortion.

Question 3

Phonics

Answer 3

A method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners’ phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them

Question 4

Phonemic awareness

Answer 4

A subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes

Question 5

Phonology

Answer 5

A branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

Question 6

List Reading Problems from Owens

Answer 6

Deficits in Phonological Awareness
Deficits in Orthographic Awareness
Deficits in Morphological Awareness
Deficits in Comprehension