CLD 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, Language Processing In The Brain

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 206
• Professor: Marie Petrescu

Document Summary

Children need a wide range of language competencies. What words mean, and what words to use. Being able to use language appropriately for different situations. Knowledge of sound-symbol relationships in a language. Discrimination of speech sounds precedes ability to produce those sounds. Phonological awareness = awareness of sounds, ability to recognize different sounds and tones and manipulate them (developed through rhyming and singing ) Prosody = word stress, sentence stress, rhythm of a language, intonation patterns. Phoneme = smallest unit of a sound, not just one letter ex: sh. Phonemic awareness = cat- c-a-t (3) but sheep sh-ee-p (still 3) Phonics = print, letters, sounds that letters make. Knowledge of word labels that specify concepts. Concepts is the word, but comes in different forms (language) Prior knowledge, what you know already, the more vocabulary, the easier to pick up new vocabulary. Related to general linguistic competence and reading comprehension. How the words are put in the sentence.