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Chp 2: Oral Language
EDUC 322 Chapter 2 Notes
Language | an agreed-on communication system used to speak, listen, read, write, gesture, etc |
Expressive Language | speaking and writing |
Receptive Language | listening and reading |
Phonology | sounds used to express language |
Prosody | expressive spoken language (intonation, stress, juncture) |
Intonation | how one's vocal pitch rises or falls in speaking |
Stress | speech intensity (the loudness or softness of spoken words) |
Juncture | slight pauses between parts of spoken words (ex. "I scream" vs "ice cream") |
Rime | the vowel sound and every other sound that follows that follows the vowel sound in a syllable |
Onset | all sounds in a single syllable that come before the vowel sound ("f" in "fit") |
Phoneme | the smallest unit of sound in a spoken language that, when changed, changes meaning (ex. "wake" vs "wade") |
Orthography | spelling patterns used in English, linking letters (graphemes) to sounds (phonemes) in spoken language also includes directionality, orientation, configuration, word length, style, non-alphebetic symbols, and letter patterns |
Grapheme | a printed or visual symbol that represents a phoneme, usually a letter such as "a, r, m, s, or o" |
Alphabetic Principle | knowing that speech sounds and letters link to one another |
Phonics | the relationships between letters and sounds |
Morphology | breaking words apart in order to study the structures that create meaning |
Morphemes | meaning units (ex. free morpheme- stands alone as having meaning: ball, peninsula, chain) (ex. bound morpheme- must be connected to another morpheme to have meaning: -ocracy, -ante, -bio) |
Syntax | how words are combined into larger language structures, such as phrases and sentences |
Grammar | a rule system for describing the structure or organization of language |
Semantics | connecting one's world knowledge, background, experiences, interests, attitudes, and perspectives into written or spoken language to construct meaning |
Schema Theory | the idea that new knowledge is connected to what the learner already knows |
Pragmatics | knowing how language works and is used in one's culture |