CSCD3082 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Metacognition, Learned Helplessness, Literal And Figurative Language

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Speech Pathology
• Course: CSCD3082
• Professor: Kimberley Docking, Sarah Masso, Julia Starling, Natalie Munro

Document Summary

Week 7 lecture notes written expression + adolescence. Dyslexic: vocab more varied in oral text than writing. Normal readers: vocab more varied in writing than oral texts fall behind in class, gaps in work (may be due to: split attention issues, tracking issues, slow processing speed, handwriting issues) Overuse of non-specific, unelaborated, concrete vocabulary in oral language. Limited understanding and use of vocab esp academic vocab. Poor spelling and punctuation problems with note taking, writing to dictation, copying from board. Problem coming up with ideas, or have ideas (cid:271)ut (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t put o(cid:374)to paper. Question interpretation (cid:894)do(cid:374)(cid:859)t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat the(cid:455)(cid:859)re supposed to do(cid:895) Executive functioning lack of content mind-set that they (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t thi(cid:374)k of (cid:449)hat to write. May not know expectations (e. g. , what does 500 words look like? how long is a paragraph? how many paragraphs should i write?) Write statement sentence for each point (topic sentence) Talk it through, then write it down, then discuss what has been written.