Unit 2

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allows learners to expand their horizons and provides them with opportunities
to communicate with others, allowing them to understand, interpret, and create meaning in their relationships
and cultural experiences.

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Learning languages

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For Indigenous peoples/communities, learning their own language grounds them in the context of their community life and enables them to develop deeper recognition and understanding of their
Indigenous knowledge systems and practices

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(DO 32, s. 2015).

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It also ensures full and effective participation and inclusion in society, as in the case of the Filipino Deaf community

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(RA 11106)

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encompasses both speaking and listening.

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Oral language

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skills include learning how
spoken words sound, what words and sentences mean, and how to communicate ideas.

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Oral language

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is often used in reference to vocabulary, but it actually encompasses five main areas: phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics.

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“Oral language”

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the smallest units of meaning in language, and how they are combined to form words.

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MORPHOLOGY

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understanding of sounds in words

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‘phonemes’

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the ability to speak with accuracy

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Fluency with oral language

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is defined as one’s ability to comprehend spoken language1 at the discourse level – including conversations, stories, and informational oral texts – that involves the processes of extracting and constructing meaning.

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Listening comprehension

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– oral reading, theater, music

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1. Passive listening or appreciative listening

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distinguishing sounds, phonemes, and non-verbal cues

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2. Discriminative listening –

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finding details, retelling, sequencing

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3. Informational or precise listening

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finding the main idea, summarizing, inferring

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4. Strategic listening

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– analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating

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5. Critical listening

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is generally motivated by the listener’s personal, informal interest. It’s important to
note that passive listening usually still results in some comprehension and learning.

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Passive listening

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is generally where most teachers focus their attention when working with students.

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Active listening

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is when the listener determines and defines both auditory and visual information.

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Discriminative listening

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When students are listening strategically, they actively look for connections to their own knowledge and try to make sense of the information.

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4. Strategic listening

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is evaluative in nature. The listener is making judgments and measuring new information against current information to make decisions or ask the next question.

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Critical listening

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is being able to describe things and events and tell stories. Talking with children helps them develop comprehension skills.

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Narrative skills

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Print concepts are knowledge about the function and purpose of print.

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Knowledge of Print

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is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds – phonemes –in spoken words.

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Phonemic awareness

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is the ability to listen to a sequence of phonemes (sounds) and to be able to combine them to form a word. /c/ /a/ /t/ is cat.

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Phoneme blending

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is the ability to break a spoken word into its separate phonemes. This can be seen as the process of spelling words phonetically.

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Phoneme segmentation

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is how a phoneme is represented as a letter, punctuation, or other symbols.

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A grapheme

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is the sound-symbol relationship.

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grapheme correspondence