Lecture 6 - Language Acquisition - Reading and Spelling Flashcards
Outline information processing reading to spelling
Reading: Print –> Speech. Meaning
Spelling: Speech, Meaning –> Print
Outline Graphemes and Phonemes
Graphemes = smallest constituents meaning
Phonemes = smallest constituents to speech
Map grapheme onto phoneme
Outline reading, writing and spelling
Secondary language skills
Build on speaking and listening
Instruction and oral language
What does reading rely on
- Phonological Skill = how we hear, speech sounds
- Vocab = build up mental lexicon
- Reading skill
- Reading comprehension
Outline Comprehension
Comprehension an accuracy positively correlated in early reading acquisition Automatic reading gives resources: Vocab breadth and depth Morphology - meaning Syntax - sentence structure and grammar
Outline the processes in early reading
Word reading = word recognition and decoding
Word reading complex = recognition, decoding and vocab for meaning
Reading = decoding x comprehension
How do we read?
Recognise letters (memory) Decode sounds (grapheme-phoneme) Analogise to known words Predict words from grapho-phonemic context Memory and semantic context
Example questions to measure phonological awareness
Does the word have an ‘n’ sound?
Does it rhyme with ‘ten’?
What do these sounds make?
Outline visual communication
Mapping symbols to language units Limited number symbols > Ambiguities > Limits features represented > Invent rules e.g. grammar, segmentation and irregular words
Effects of practice on learning to spell Conrad 2008
2 groups students. 1 reading intervention. 1 spelling intervention.
Spelling group performed consistently in spelling and reading
Teaching how to spell cant help but cover reading, encouraging grapheme to phoneme
Outline the conclusion of Conrad 2008 on the effects of practice on learning to spell
Transference from spelling to reading
Word-specific transfer across skill
Outline the models of reading and spelling development
Coltheart Dual Route Cascaded Model
Frith Stages Model
Ehri Phases Model
Gentry Spelling
What are the two routes in Coltheart Dual Route Cascaded Model
Lexical semantic/Sub-lexical route
Lexical non-semantic/Lexical route
Outline Lexical semantic/Sub-lexical route
Not real world = feature and letter units Familiar words = automatic Regular words and non-words Grapheme --> Phoneme Serial processing
Outline Lexical non-semantic/Lexical route
Irregular words e.g. yacht
Orthographic input to phonological output and phoneme speaking system
Read words aloud, activation whole word
Info about word e.g. meaning, associations, frequency
What is processing for early readers
Letter units
Grapheme-Phoneme
Mapping on to sounds of language
Critiques of Dual Route Cascaded Model
How are different routes mastered?
When are they mastered?
Where does GP convertor come from?
Outline Dyslexia
Phono and Ortho Lexicon
GPC = speaking out words how they are spelt, rather than considering irregularities
Units
What are the 3 stages of Friths 1985 Stage Model
Logographic
Alphabetic
Orthographic
Developmental model. Environment key.
Outline the Logographic stage of Friths 1985 Stage Model
Process word like any other visual object/symbol
Instant recognition
Crude features e.g. shape or size
Not aware individual letters or combinations represent specific sounds.
Some idea of meaning
Outline the Alphabetic stage of Friths 1985 Stage Model
Visually represent words in different format Mapping sounds Letter order and chronology Word attack skills Decompose unfamiliar/nonsense words
Outline the Orthographic stage of Friths 1985 Stage Model
Don’t need to sound out words on a regular basis
Do not need look at individual letters
Automatic
Outline Friths 1985 updated 6 Stage Model
Looks relationship between reading and spelling
Each step made multiple different focuses, looking both spelling and reading
Different stages of literacy development, different aspects of it will be more influenced by reading or spelling
Example of a stage on Friths 1985 updated 6 Stage Model
Stage 1
Reading more useful this stage
Understanding letters or reading mean something