learning written language Flashcards
orthography
written language
-have to map symbol onto corresponding unit of sound
what will affect your ability to read?
you have to know what the visual symbol represents
logographc –> alphabetic –> orthographic
logographic
arbitrary link and reliance on visual cues
alphabetic
read using letter sounds - decoding
orthographc
can recognise morphemes and words
Gough + tunmer 1986 - simple view
reading comprehension is product of 2 skills
read to understand message
- how fluent depends on how quickly transform into sound
Scarborough 2001
reading rope
- reciprocal relationship word recog + language compregension
- more you read more vocab increases
alphabetic principle
to decode - have to understand words made of phonemes
-learning letter sounds - decoding - hold in STM - blend together
Transparency
decoding complicated by words island - dont conform to letter mapping sound rules
english is opaque/deep orthography - complicated by lots of words that dont follow rules
Caravolas 2013 - cross linguistic studies
english, spanish, Czec - vary transparancy
- rate of early reading slower in english
- PA less important in english, RAN more importat
- when only english instuction learning alphabet = similar reading
- when instruction for others - sudden spurt
- slower growth english
-initial reading predicted by PA, LSK, RAN (LSK less english)
predictors of decoding
reading = read word silent + select correct picture
- phoneme awareness
- rapid automatised naming
- letter sound knowledge
PA
phoneme isolation
phoneme blending
RAN
show matric + ask to name as fast as possible - turn visual symbol to verbal label
LSK
provide sounds for visual letters
Hulme 2012
intervention to promote LSK + PA
- improved reading
mediation analysis
increases in literacy FULLY caused by increases in LSK and PA
slight word reading
automatically recognise words
non word reading tests - cant rely on experience
skilled reader - orthographic learning
Share 1995 - self teaching hypotheiss
children teach selves via decoding - creates connection between spoken + written (orthographic mapping)
- asked to read novel word in context several times - tested whether leart using choice task
- learnt quickly
- ability to decode novel word correlated with learning written form
- spelling practice improves OL
irregular words
partially decided + use context
L-DRC model - semantics + lexical info
knowing spoken form of Irreg predictor of reading, knowing meaning wasnt
knowing meaning, not spoken was predictor
training studies
phonological + semantic pre training – better aloud novel irregular words than phon alone
Wang
compared phonological training to phon/semantic
- should teach both before showing visual
activation of correct pronunciation receives boost by activation of phon + semantic info learnt pre-training
bridged inference
have to get info from different areas of text
elaborative inference
dont haev to make to understand but can do with info
lexical legacy hypothesis
key is reading experience - makes high quality representations
-frees resources for comprehension