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Chapter 2
Developing Children's Oral lanuage to Support Literacy Instruction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Language | agreed-on communication system |
| Expressive language | requires sender of a message to "encode" or put thoughts into symbolic form |
| Receptive language | requires the reciever to "decode" or unlock the code of written or spoken language |
| Phonology | sounds used to express language |
| Prosody | expressive spoken language |
| Intonation | inflection |
| Stress | speech intensity |
| Juncture | slight pauses between spoken words |
| rime | vowel sound that follows the vowel sound in a syllable |
| onset | all sounds a single syllable that come before the vowel sound |
| Phoneme | smallest unit of sound in spoken language |
| phonemic awareness | individual sounds in spoken words |
| grapheme | printed or visual symbol that represents a phoneme |
| Orthography | spelling patterns in English |
| alphabetic principle | critcal insight that young children must achieve in learning to read and write |
| morphology | breaking words apart in order to study the structures that create meaning |
| morphemes | meaning units |
| free morphemes | root word |
| Syntax | understanding how words are combined into larger lanuage structures |
| grammer | system of describing structure of language |
| Semantics | connection to world knowledge |
| Schema theory | idea that new knowledge is connected to prior knowledge |
| pragmatics | knowing how a language works and used in one's culture |
| mean length of utterance | average number of words spoken in a statement |
| picture vocabulary | verbally identifies pictures |
| relational vocabulary | talk about relationship between two spoken stimulus words |
| oral vocabulary | understands common english words |
| syntactic understanding | comprehends the meaning of sentences |
| sentence imiation | imiates spoken english sentences |
| morphological completion | uses common english morphological form |
| word discrimiation | recognizes differnces in speech sounds between words |
| word analysis | segments spoken into smaller phonemic units |
| word articulation | articulates important english speech sounds |
| forms of language | idenitfy vocab, verb tense, parts of speech and sentence structure |
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ericaboudreaux
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