language adolescents test 2 Flashcards
What is a Simple View of Reading
word level reading (can be taught): consists of decoding and linguistic comprehension.
Why did Kamhi think this was a good definition for now? (Simple View of Reading)
solution to the reading crisis in the US. it is possible to eliminate reading failure if reading is defined narrowly as decoding abilities. Reading proficiency levels would be expected to reach 90
What did Catts add? (Simple View of Reading)
a narrow view of reading promotes a broad view of comprehension that recognizes its complexity. Not only are there different levels of understanding (i.e., literal, analytic, creative), but comprehension also depends on thinking and reasoning processes that are domain and content specific rather than domain general.
Top-down model:
emphasizes the importance of scripts, schemata, and inferences that allow one to make hypotheses and prediction about the information being processed.
Bottom-up model
views spoken and written language comprehension as a step-by-step process that begins with the initial detection of an auditory or visual stimulus, then chunked into meaningful units
Interactive model:
both bottom-up and top-down processes contribute to reading and language comprehension. acknowledges that individuals must have proficient word recognition skills as well as higher-level linguistic and conceptual knowledge to be good readers.
what are the parallel processes for reading comprehension?
Visual Input—visual analysis—to both phonological representation and visual representation. Word meaning and sentence/text processing then interact back and forth. The end result is comprehension
What’s in your mental lexicon?
mental dictionary that contains information regarding a word’s meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics
how do you use mental lexicon in speaking?
word meaning is accessed through a word’s phonological representation. The output of the perceptual analysis is a representation of a word’s acoustic and phonetic features.
how do you use mental lexicon in reading?
the reader locates the word in the lexicon and a match is made between the perceived visual configuration and a visual representation that is part of the mental lexicon for a particular word.
How does knowledge of structure (syntax & morphology), help one comprehend reading?
The cues include: word order, grammatical morphemes, and function words. they allow a person to break down words into sentences and understand what is being said/read
How does knowledge of propositions help one comprehend reading?
Listeners and readers use their knowledge of predicates and their inherent arguments to construct propositions.
How does knowledge of the world knowledge help one comprehend reading?
can be very broad, but we can construct meaning by using situation-specific world knowledge as listeners and readers. as we process discourse, we construct a mental/ situational model of the world as described by the discourses.
“understanding is the management of working memory,”
Comprehension is managed in a limited capacity working memory. Ex: when demands of comprehension exceed limitations of working memory, students comprehension decreases
Word Recognition Logographic stage:
visual cues/shapes
prephonetic (random string)
semiphonetic (some matches)
Word Recognition Alphabetic stage
- Underlies phonological decoding
- grapheme/phoneme correspondance (invented spelling)
Word Recognition Orthographic stage
- facilitated by decoding & spelling instructions
- morphophonological rules (reading)
- morphosyntatic rules (spelling)
What is the problem with Stage Theories in Word Recognition?
no empirical evidence
• focuses on what knowledge children need to become proficient readers instead of the mechanisms that underlie changes in reading proficiency.
•each stage is associated with only one type of reading, which implies that all words are read with the same approach at a particular stage.
•How a little knowledge becomes a lot of knowledge is not addressed.
•over-simplify development and obscure individual differences.
What is the Self-Teaching Hypothesis
idea that phonological decoding functions as a self-teaching mechanism that enables the learner to acquire the orthographic representations necessary for fast and accurate visual word recognition & for proficient spelling.
List any misconceptions about comprehension development that are really important for “reading to learn” stage.
b. when tests and teachers assume that each text has only one correct or best interpretation, students learn that to perform well in class and on tests, they simply need to reconstruct or restate the meaning of the text as presented by the teacher or guide-book.
- Comprehension is a unitary, generalizable skill that can be applied equally well to all texts.
- Comprehension is a unitary, easily measurable skill that develops in discrete measurable increments over the school years.
What 2 phonemic awareness tasks can kindergarten students do by the end of kindergarten according to Good, et al. and Torgesen & Morgan?
a. Segmenting sounds of 3 and 4 phoneme words
b. Blend individually presented sounds together to form words
What did Bird, Bishop, & Freeman determine about preschool children with speech and language impairments in terms of phonological awareness?
They appear to develop phonological and phonemic awareness slower when compared to their typically developing peers.
How do typical children compare with children with LI?
Young children with LI are 4-5 times more likely than their peers to have reading problems later in elementary school and beyond, half of kindergarteners with LI have reading disabilities by 2nd grade
Phonemic Awareness is important in learning to read for 3 reasons
- helps children understand the alphabetic principle and develop alphabetic knowledge.
- helps children notice the regular ways that letters represent sounds in words.
- helps children become flexible decoders
Are you surprised about PA?
PA activities might not give us enough information to make them worth the time it takes to administer them.