Hi Class,
1. Please read pp. 84-97 (Anonat).
2. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
3. Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
Doc Raqui
1. Please read pp. 84-97 (Anonat).
2. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
3. Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
Doc Raqui
2. A teacher should understand how children learn a language specifically what a child should learn on a specific age level for them to adjust the subjects being taught according to the child's capabilities. Also, it is important for assessment and/or early detection of possible language defects or if a child has learning disabilities.
ReplyDelete2. Emergent literacy period is period of time before children go to school. The knowledge they acquire are based on their exposure to their surroundings. They began to notice pictures like that of the alphabet. So by the time go to school they already know or some memorized it through singing. During pre-school, children will start to know about phonetics. Reading using visual or graphical cues is used for more familiarization of words. They will be more exposed to reading sentences or even short stories until Grades 1 & 2 but complete comprehension usually occur on the third grade.
1. Spoken words are opportunities for learning that should take place throughout the day - especially during conversations between children and between teachers and children. Human language is a remarkable way to communicate. No other form of communication in the natural world transfers so much information in such a short period of time. It is even more remarkable that in three short years a child can hear, mimic, explore, practice, and finally, learn language.
ReplyDeleteA teacher must assess each child to determine individual needs, design instruction based on these needs, and monitor progress throughout the year to be sure that specified goals and objectives are being met.
2. The single most helpful thing a parent can do to help their child learn to read is to read to their infants, and read with their toddlers and young children. Reading is a process that involves the integration of several skills. These skills progress from phonemic awareness to phonics, which teaches students that each letter is represented by a sound and a written symbol, and that these sounds make words when blended in specific combinations, which is the foundation of decoding, or sounding out words. When a child can decode, they can begin to read text. More than that, if you are consistent about reading with your child, they will learn from your example that reading is important
1. As communicator, educator, evaluator, and agent of socialization, teachers should understand language development in school-aged children so that they would recognize the role and importance of literacy in the child’s development. Ones knowledge of language and literacy are crucial to the economic and social survival. Awareness of this fact would enable teachers to design and develop methods of instruction that would meet the linguistic and literacy developmental needs of the individual children.
ReplyDelete2. Learning to read is a process, one that requires mastering three basic skills. These skills are syntax, semantics, and phonics. Syntax (grammar and punctuation) is the way words, phrases, and clauses go together to create sentences and paragraphs. Semantics is the way words and sentences in a group relate to one another. Phonics refers to the sounds letters make and the relationship between written and spoken words, or comprehension. As the child learns to read, he will develop these cue areas as a group, not one at a time. Most children, however, start understanding syntax and semantics before phonics; that is; the child will learn that sentences in a book run from left to right before he understands what the letter combination—sh—sounds like. The best thing parents and teachers can do to help the child grow in all these three areas is to expose him/her to books and reading every day, whether by reading aloud at bedtime, reading aloud in the classroom, and giving them story-reading assignments.
2. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
ReplyDeleteLanguage is the primary means of communication. We need to understand how an individual with different age group communicate so we can cope up and that we can transmit the knowledge.
3. Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
The first phonology, the sounds of language and structure of sounds. Children can properly pronounce most of the sounds of their language by the time they reach school. The second syntax, children are using “adult like” sentences by appropriate age. Which are basic forms simple declarations and questions. They are capable of understanding more complicated forms such as passive voice. The third, semantics and one of its aspects is vocabulary. A child begins to use his or her first words around the time of the first birthday. Aside from the development of a vocabulary, hallmark of semantics development is the capability to understand complex language functions. The pragmatics development occurs as a child became capable of using his or her grammatical competence to communicate in a variety of contexts.
2. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
ReplyDeleteA teacher should understand how children learn a language because a language children learn is an essential tool in socialization and achieving independence. Children who are able to communicate more easily than other classmates have more chances to make friends and interact with teachers. Children who are capable of telling their wants and needs are no longer treated as babies. Additionally, a teacher must be aware of the level of language which children use, because how children speak language continuously change with their certain ages.
3. Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
The process a child goes through when he learns to read is related to stages of grammatical development. There are three major elements of language. The first is phonology, the sounds of a language and the structure of sounds. Phonological experimentation such as crying, cooing and babbling can be seen when a baby is less than one age. The second is syntax, the way the words of language form sentences. The third is semantics, the meaning underlying words and sentences. During the age of one, a single word is often used to communicate a variety of messages. This is called holophrasic speech. There is one other element of language, pragmatics. It refers to the contexts in which language is used and the way language can be used to create contexts. Using language to read or gain information is just one aspect of pragmatic development. In addition, for English- speaking children, the speech or reading sounds that take the longest to develop are s,z,v,th and zh.
2. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
ReplyDeleteTo be able to teach the language to the children, the teacher must know and understand how children learn it. It is a must for teachers especially language teachers to understand the nature of language acquisition of their students.
3. Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
Stage 0- From birth until beginning of formal education, children living in a literate culture with alphabetic writing system accumulate a fund of knowledge about letters, words, and books.
Stage 1- This stage is characterized by an increasing ability in reading. Reading in this stage is largely an “inside out” process, one that depends more on the “reader” than on what is read. What is already known for them. They concentrate on printed materials.
Stage 2- stage 2 consolidates what was learned in Stage 1. Reading stories previously heard increases fluency. In this stage, children read
2. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
ReplyDeleteClearly, communication with students is essential in effective teaching.To communicate successfully, teachers must know how to structure their own language output for maximum clarity and have strategies for understanding what students are saying since understanding student talk is key to analysis of what students know, how they understand, and what teaching moves would be useful.
3. Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
The process a child goes through when he learns to read is; first, they try to listen to someone who reads to them. Second, the child begins to understand the meaning of what you are reading. Third, the children shift from listening to reading; they will now recognize the letter and sound then combine them which help them to read.
Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
ReplyDeleteA teacher should understand the children’s way of learning a language because this will help him or her to be able to determine the children’s mastery on language and their capacity to learn that language. Once the teacher know it, it will be easy for her to be able to develop a certain way to help the children to strengthen their literacy on a specific language. It’s because language is a key to socialize and to communicate.
Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
Two main ways to learn to read are by learning phonics and developing sight vocabulary. Some children will prefer one method over the other, and others will find both equally necessary. Children tend to familiarize themselves to a certain picture or a word and then follow the way the adults read it or express it or it can be done the other way around.
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Madelaine D. Tan
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1. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
Answer:
Being a teacher, he/she should know how children learn a language so that he/she will know what dialect she would use to make the child understand easily and completely what she was trying to teach. She then can adjust and plan strategies on how to further improve and guide her in acquisition of knowledge. With this, better communication is achieve.
2. Describe the process a child goes through when he learn to read.
Answer:
Three basic skills, ( syntax, semantics and phonics) must be learned by a child before he/she can read. In syntax, he learned about the grammatical structure and relationship of words with each other. In semantics, he/she learns vocabulary. In phonics, sounds are co-related with spoken or written words. As the child grows, these processes are further enhanced and improved by exposing the child to reading materials. It must capture his/her imagination, curiosity and attention to encourage him/her to read.
Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
ReplyDeleteA teacher should understand how children learn a language simply because communication plays a pivotal role in learning. If a teacher is aware of how kids learn on how to speak then they can make learning easier.
Kids at a young age, usually learn a language through imitation; they tend to mimic what they hear and as educators, we must be aware of this process so as to be sensitive and self-regulating with the words that we use in class.
Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read
Children move through 3 stages as they learn to read namely, emergent reading, beginning reading, and fluent reading.
In emergent reading, the purpose of communicative print is understood by children. They start to notice environmental print, can dictate stories and even read predictable books after they have memorized the pattern. In the beginning reading stage, children learn the phoneme-grapheme correspondences and start to decode the words. And lastly in the fluent reading stage, children have learned to read, decode unfamiliar words and recognize words automatically. Children are able to make use of their cognitive energy on comprehension.
A teacher should understand how children learn a language so that he/she could design a curriculum base of the age of his/her students. Also it is important for a teacher to know it so that he/she may assess or detect if one of his/her student is suffering from any speech defect.
ReplyDeleteWhen a child learns to read he undergoes grammatical development. When he reads he gains more words and gains more meaning to those words he already knew. By that he can communicate and can convey an idea more than before.
Jerome Chuatoco
ReplyDelete1. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
A teacher should understand how a child learns a language so that he will be able to properly teach a child how to effectively communicate to others. A teacher should also know this so that he can adjust to how a child learns. The way language is taught should be designed in a way that it complements the child’s level and learning pace.
It could be that a child learns a language differently compared to other children, if that is the case, then a teacher should pattern his lessons in a way where the child will learn the most.
Language will play one of the most important roles in a child’s development through learning. It is a tool that he will use in order to learn both academically and socially through his peers.
2. Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
There are three processes that a child goes through when they learn how to read. The first one is Phonology. Phonology is the development of vocal sounds. It is the first process in learning. This also includes when a child learns how to read by first learning the sound of each alphabet. This includes the long and short sounds of vowels, the silent letters, and the consonant blends. Prior to that, the child will already recognize simple words.
Next is syntax. It is when a child forms simple phrases and sentences. The words he usually forms are words that he has heard from people close to him.
Last is semantics. It is when the child the child slowly learns the meaning of every word he speaks. This is the time when he starts to grasp how to better construct a sentence.
Based on the process a child goes through, some of the best methods to teaching how to read include exposing them to songs and rhymes. Reading stories to them can also help, as well as showing them flash card with pictures that they can easily recognize and the words that identifies it.
After a while, a child will be able to decode simple words easily, therefore he will be able to read simple texts more fluently.
1. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
ReplyDeleteIt is of vital importance that teachers understand how children learn a language. This would help them appreciate more the teaching-learning process that take place.It should be remember that many of the challenges in education stem from the fact that school is a diverse society. They come from every corner of the country, or the world itself, and they bring with them diverse outlooks, languages, cultural beliefs and behaviors and background experiences. Teachers are expected to perform their task whoever shows up, i.e. to teach, and provide appropriate skills and prepare them outside the school. So having knowledge on how children learn a language would help the teacher recognize the instructional support and attention required by the student. Furthermore, it would help to evaluate the appropriateness of various methods, materials and approaches for helping students make progress in learning.
2. Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
Learning how to read is a delicate but complicated process. They must eventually be linked to equally abstract sounds called phonemes, blended together and pronounced as words, where meaning is finally realized. To learn to read, the child must figure out the relationship between sounds and letters. Thus, the beginning reader must learn the connections between the approximately 44 sounds of spoken English (the phonemes), and the 26 letters of the alphabet. In order for a beginning reader to learn how to connect or translate printed symbols (letters and letter patterns) into sound, the would-be reader must understand that speech can be segmented or broken into small sounds (phoneme awareness) and that the segmented units of speech can be represented by printed forms (phonics). This understanding that written spellings systematically represent the phonemes of spoken words (termed the alphabetic principle) is absolutely necessary for the development of accurate word reading skills. Why are phoneme awareness and the development of the alphabetic principle so critical for the beginning reader? Because if children cannot perceive the sounds in spoken words – for example, if they cannot "hear" the at sound in fat and cat and perceive that the difference lies in the first sound, they will have difficulty decoding or "sounding out" words in a rapid and accurate fashion. From studies initiated in 1965 to understand how the reading process develops, there is a strong evidence that it is not the ear that understands that a spoken word like cat is divided into three sounds and that these discrete sounds can be linked to the letters C-A-T. Rather, it is the language systems in the brain that performs this function. In some youngsters, the brain seems to have an easy time processing this type of information. However, in many children that skill is only learned with difficulty, and thus must be taught directly, explicitly, and by a well-prepared and informed teacher. It also clear that the development of these critical early reading-related skills, such as phoneme awareness and phonics, are fostered when children are read to at home during the preschool years, when they learn their letter and number names, and when they are introduced at very early ages to concepts of print and literacy activities.
Adapted from: Lyon, G. R. (July 10, 1997). Report on Learning Disabilities Research. Testimony before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives.