Historical Development of Writing systems
The first primitive writing systems directly represented or made pictures of the intended meaning.
What are Pictographs?
The ultimate goal- product of printed word recognition and language comprehension
What is reading comprehension?
Written or spoken language that is more stylistically formal than spoken convential language. Language that is most often used in academic discourse and text
What is academic language?
The part of our body that takes in words in a series of stops and jumps called saccades
What are our eyes?
This area of the brain enables us to perceive, remember, interpret and produce the speech-sound system of our own language and learn the sounds of other languages.
What is the Phonological processing system?
A unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel.
What is a syllable?
The accurate and fast retrieval of decoded word forms
What is word recognition?
A writing system for representing language.
What is Orthography?
The matching of letters and letter sequences with the sounds of the spoken word.
What is orthographic mapping?
A letter or letter combination that spells a phoneme, can be one, two, three, or four letters in English.
What is a grapheme?
1828
In what year was the first dictionary published?
The ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondence
What is decoding?
The study of word and phrase meanings and relationships.
What is semantics?
The part of the brain where the orthographic processing system is located.
What is the occipital lobe?
The part of English language that is an abstract visual symbol
What is a letter?
A spelling system that represents morphemes as well as speech sounds
If we can't comprehend what we hear, then we can't do this either
What is reading comprehension?
The system of rules and conventions for using language and related gestures in a social context.
What is Pragmatics?
Our Letter box. It's where mapping phonemes to graphemes or associating speech with printed symbols happens.
What is the planum temporale?
The speed with which letters and letter sequences are recognized and recalled.
What does proficient reading and accurate spelling depend on?
The smallest meaningful unit of language.
What is a morpheme?
The ability to think about and reflect on the structure of language itself.
What is metalinguistic awareness?
Includes paragraph structure, cohesive ties, and genre conventions such as story structure.
What is discourse?
The lobe in which pronunciation and articulation are located
What is the frontal lobe?
The system that interprets the meanings of words in and out of context
What is the semantic processing system?