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Chapter 2: Developing Children's Oral Language to Support Literacy | ECED - Foundations of Reading, Quizzes of Learning processes

Class: ECED - Foundations of Reading; Subject: Early Childhood Education; University: University of Houston-Clear Lake; Term: Forever 1989;

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TERM 1
Language
DEFINITION 1
An agreed upon "communication system"
TERM 2
Expressive Language
DEFINITION 2
Speak/Write
Requires the sender of a message to "encode"
Encode: putting thoughts into symbolic systems of the
language for transmittal
TERM 3
Receptive Language
DEFINITION 3
Read/hear
Requires the receive of a message to "decode"
Decode: making sense of the language symbolic system
used by the sender in order to construct meaning
TERM 4
Phonology
DEFINITION 4
Study of the sound structures of oral language
TERM 5
Prosody
DEFINITION 5
"Speaking with Expression"
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Language

An agreed upon "communication system" TERM 2

Expressive Language

DEFINITION 2 Speak/Write Requires the sender of a message to "encode" Encode: putting thoughts into symbolic systems of the language for transmittal TERM 3

Receptive Language

DEFINITION 3 Read/hear Requires the receive of a message to "decode" Decode: making sense of the language symbolic system used by the sender in order to construct meaning TERM 4

Phonology

DEFINITION 4 Study of the sound structures of oral language TERM 5

Prosody

DEFINITION 5 "Speaking with Expression"

Intonation

Vocal pitch rises/falls in speaking Example: pitch rising at the end of a question TERM 7

Stress

DEFINITION 7 Loudness or softness of spoken words (speech intensity) For example, a speaker who wants to emphasize a particular point will say a word or phrase more loudly TERM 8

Juncture

DEFINITION 8 Refers to the slight pauses between parts of spoken words or words. Example: the difference between "i scream" and "ice cream" TERM 9

Rime

DEFINITION 9 Defined as the vowel sound and every other sound that follows the vowel sound in a syllable Example: "Oil" in the word "Spoil" TERM 10

Onset

DEFINITION 10 All sounds in a syllable that come before the vowel sound Example: "Sp" in the word "Spoil"

Phonics

A method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system TERM 17

Morphology

DEFINITION 17 Breaking words apart in order to study structures that create meaning TERM 18

Morpheme

DEFINITION 18 Smallest unit of meaning 2 Types: free and bound Free: stands alone as a word having --> root or base words such as ball, plant, etc. Bound: Must be connected to another --> Prefixes and suffixes such as pre, re, etc. TERM 19

Syntax

DEFINITION 19 Understanding of how words are combined into larger language structures, especially sentences TERM 20

Grammar

DEFINITION 20 Rule system for describing the structure/organization of language

Semantics

Connecting one's background experiences, knowledge, interests, attitudes, and perspectives with spoken/written language to construct meaning TERM 22

Schema Theory

DEFINITION 22 The belief that new knowledge is connected to related ideas one already knows TERM 23

Pragmatics

DEFINITION 23 The study of how language is used in society to satisfy the needs of human communication TERM 24

Dialect

DEFINITION 24 Speech variations associated with various geographic regions or ethnic groups Affects childrens ability to understand and use the sounds of spoken English TERM 25

Behaviorist Theory

DEFINITION 25 Believe that oral language is learned through conditioning and shaping processes that involve a stimulus and a reward or a punishment

Mean Length of Utterance

(MLU)

The average number of words spoken in a statement TERM 32

Forms of Language

DEFINITION 32 Vocabulary, verb tense, parts of speech, and sentence structure TERM 33

Language Fluency

DEFINITION 33 Varying the ways oral language can be used Example: one reads aloud a folktale in a different way than a math story problem TERM 34

Dialogic Reading (DR)

DEFINITION 34 An interactive picture book reading activity developed by Whitehurst and colleagues in the 1980's to be used primarily between parent and child dyads. TERM 35

Electronic Talking Books (ETB)

DEFINITION 35 Texts on CD-rom or available over the internet featuring not only the written word but also hypertext options for narration, animations, music, or video (i.e. eBooks)