Hi Class,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Please answer the following:
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
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Please answer the following:
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
noted mam, answers to follow. THANKS! Happy Holidays!!!
ReplyDelete1. As a teacher, it is important to know your students' learnings. It is better if you have know the background on how their parents taught them during the time that they are not yet in a formal school. In this way, you may be able to know on how you will teach them in a way that is easy for them. Like when you are assigned to teach a grade 1 class, as it was observed not all the students in this level are able to cope up with their lesson, you should teach them in a way that is easy for them to understand and as a teacher you should see to it that all your learners are on the same path.
ReplyDelete2. Children or even they are still babies an individual can be able to learn to read. An individual undergoes different processes as they learn to read. According to the book of Anonat, in emergent literacy period from birth until the begining of a formal education children growing up in literature cultures accumulate knowledge about letters, words and books. Also, it is the period of time before children go to school. As with the logographic stage, it is about a transition to phonemic or alphabetic stage of reading. In this stage, children do not use knowledge of word or its surrounding context (Anonat). Transition phase, as discussed in the book of Anonat, it is said that children in this phase are similar to logographic readers because they cannot read unfamiliar words, but differ from logographic readers because they are able to use sound-letter information to read familiar words. With the alphabetic stage, once children use the sounds of letters to read, they have entered the alphabetic stage (Chall, 1983) and (Frith, 195). Orthographic stage is characterized by the use of letter sequences and spelling patterns to recognize words visually without phonologic conversion (Anonat). As with self-teaching hypothesis, it was explained as it attempts to explain one of the long-standing puzzles of how children learn to read (Share, 1995).
2. The teacher should understand how children learn a language so that he/she know how to teach and handle the students. There is no children that are the same, the teacher should anticipate that there some children have slow developmental when it comes to reading or speaking. I would say that they should help their students to learn and cope.
ReplyDelete3. During infancy the baby uses sounds as there way of communicating, before the baby turn 1 year old he/she may speak recognizable syllables, like "ba", "da", "ga", and "ma". At the toddler stage they imitate and repeat what the adult say. By the time that they are in preschool age, they learn the alphabet and they can tell what is in the picture. Some children, during kindergarten can read, but most of them can read during preparatory, it is due to the help of their parents and teachers. Common here in the Philippines, tagalog word is the first they learn to read. Children "bay-bay" the word when reading. As they grow old, they learn how to read properly.
2. Language is not just about words but also sounds, symbols and gestures used in communication. It is an effective tool in expressing our needs and desires so that other people will understand us and that for us to be able to relate well in our environment. Understanding how children learn a language is important among teachers because it this way they will be able to really improve and enhance the learning process of their students. Not all children are alike; hence, how they learn a language also varies and that teachers should make necessary adjustments for this to facilitate learning.
ReplyDelete3. According to www.babycenter.com, learning to read is a process that requires mastering three basic skills such as 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 a child learns to read, he/she 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, a child will learn that sentences in a book run from left to right before he/she understands what the letter combination ch sounds like. The best thing to do to help a child grow in all three areas is to expose him/her to books and reading every day.
2. Why should a teacher understand how children learn a language?
ReplyDeleteOur primary means to receive and gather information is through language. it can be by writing or speaking or by reading and listening. Usually they say that student who could communicate well or those whose good in processing language skills do well in school. However, this language also became a hindrance, when a student wasn't able to communicate effectively relationship with other and school performance became affected, and with that teachers role came by. As a teacher we are obliged to teach our student well and in order for the teacher to choose the best teaching style, they must first learn to understand and even appreciate how student's learn. I would definitely say that our teaching instructing rely and depend on our students which made me agree on the importance of understanding how our student understand language.
3. Describe the process a child goes through when he learns to read.
They say that learning to read and write begins long before the school years, as the biological, cognitive, and social precursors are put into place. It's a long process that develops throughout the year. Children usually listen first to their surrounding and imitate it soon through practice, sometimes they listen to favorite stories and retell them on their own. Sooner or later children became expert and were able not just to read but comprehend as well.
2.For effective teaching it is essential to understand how children learn a language and to know the level of children’s language ability. Learning is a fundamentally social activity. There will be limited communication if a teacher uses language, metaphors, similes, sarcasm and facetious remarks that the student cannot understand yet. Teacher must use language within the capacity of the children’s comprehension. For very young pupils it is necessary for teachers to use non-verbal language, pictures, gestures, drawings and other medium.
ReplyDelete3.Just like other cognitive development, according to the studies, reading proceeds gradually. Before the beginning of formal education, the literacy knowledge children acquire depends on how much exposure they have to literacy artifacts and events. It will also depend on the children’s interest and facility in learning. Children first learn the letter names and shapes. When a child developed letter recognition accuracy, he/she will learn sound-letter correspondence, rhyming & phonemes. A child becomes a proficient reader when he/she developed automatic word recognition. Chall (1938) reading stage theory provides a useful framework for understanding the basic developmental changes that occur as children learns to read. Alder and Van Doren (1972) four levels of reading comprehension provides alternative view of comprehension development.
2. Education is not only imparting the knowledge or subject matter to the students but rather, teaching is something that you have to consider as a passion, a legacy which will remain in the learners’ compassion. As a teacher, it is indeed our duty to teach and help the students develop their skills and talents. It is our responsibility to educate and to mold them to the highest learning that they can achieve. However, we should also take into consideration that not every students are fast learner; there are also some who were slow and average learner. Especially when it comes to the language development of the child, we should always understand their capacity in speaking and reading. We should enhance and help our students learning a language because learning on that cannot just be achieve in just a snap but rather in process that’s why we have to be patience and compassionate to our profession in teaching.
ReplyDelete3. It is important to view reading as one part of a child’s total language development, not a separate skill. With this lens, it is clear that early exposure to spoken language as well as written language will have lasting effects on the way a child learns to read. It probably isn’t a surprise to you that learning is intimately tied to your emotions. Stress, anxiety, anger, fear, or other negative emotions causes the release of hormones that can prevent retention of new information and slow the learning process. This is just one more reason why reading with your young child should be a fun shared activity, not a stressful one. 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. There are so many reasons why this simple action has a strong effect on a child’s learning. First, the time spent with your child is vitally important to helping them develop positive self-esteem. [1]
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1. http://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-teach-a-child-to-read.htm
1. It's important for teachers to understand that children have very limited concept knowledge and vocabularies in their first language. Children learn the basic patterns of speech during his first five years and preschool teachers are part of the learning process and play a critical role in supporting language development. Teachers must understand how children learn a language to foster language development by using appropriate language e.g. try to expand children’s language if a child mispronounce or speaks incorrectly. Likewise, to plan instructional strategies to differently individual children who understand language more and who have understanding difficulties; which to improve the understanding of children’s language. For example, to simplify the language used with child so it is at the level they understand or use clear, simple speech that is easy to imitate. Also, one important step that also helps is to establish reading picture which can guide children through as they learn to read. Encourage children to communicate by listening, responding, and not correcting or criticize their incorrect language.
ReplyDelete2. There are many skills that contribute to a child’s ability to read. According to a study, 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.
The first step I did that taught my son to read was I have taken to teach him the ABC's. The next step is for him to recognize them when he sees them, and then learned their sounds. I allow him also to listen and watch learning videos of the alphabet that made him familiar with the phonics as well. Once he has mastered with these, he will be well on his way in reading on his own. It is also important thing on how would a parent helps a child grow in all three areas is to expose him to books and reading every day, whether by reading aloud at bedtime or reading something he is interested to.
2. Teacher should understand how a child learn a language, so that he/she can adopt to the learners ability to learn specially in language. As a teacher we should be flexible and dynamic on how does our learners learn best it may vary in wheres the learners from, but if we are talking to a process it may varies also media such as television, internet and radio influences because in nature child learns language on what they hear.Example comparison is a student from a private school and well off family and a student from public school living in a squatter area of tondo.
ReplyDelete3.A simple process for me when a child learn how to read is on there senses visual and hearing. Seeing letter and hearing how it sound. Putting letters together to form a word, then comes the sentences and now where ready to put meaning on every word in a sentence.
a. A teacher should understand how children learn a language for them to know the stages of development of a child in language. Just like in perception, it’s a long way process till the child has learn and enhance his/her different senses. In language it’s almost the same thing coz learning a language is also developmental. As you grow you developed. and if a teacher understand how these children learn their language they can easily teach their students the ways on how to let these students understand more about their lesson and how to teach the lesson.
ReplyDeleteb. From birth until the beginning of formal education, children grow in their own control. At first it is broken into parts then later on it will form a whole word. By the increasing ability in reading when a child is already learning in school is an inside out process, one that depends more on the reader than on what is read. Reading a familiar book is a big help because it boost a child interest to read. Aside from that if he/she always read, the child can practice his/her reading skills and later on he/she will be proficient in reading. Aside from learning how to read they also learn from what they read. At this stage they started to gain new knowledge, information, thoughts and experience.
2. Every child has their own abilities; they are not all exactly the same when it comes to learning. We can say that some of them are fast learners while the others are not like that. As a teacher, we need to understand how children learn language so that we can be able to understand their level of learning. By understanding their learning language we can determine how we are going to handle them and help them to improve their learning and communication skills. Since children differ from each other, we teachers should be flexible enough to know the proper approach and method to be used in every child that we are handling.
ReplyDelete3. A child who is more exposed to literacy artifacts and events has more opportunities to learn about print. Letter recognition speed and accuracy are important in reading. A child must also have phoneme awareness or phonological awareness to basically learn how to read. According to Anonat, most of the teachers are familiar with Chall’s(1983) stage theory of reading which provides a useful framework for understanding the basic developmental changes that occur as children learn to read. These stages are the following: logographic stage, transition phase, alphabetic stage and orthographic stage. Initially a child based his readings on the letters that are visually salient to him. After that, children will now use sound-letter information to read words. Once a child use sounds of letters to read, he is now in the alphabetic stage. And when the child already accumulates sufficient knowledge of spelling patterns, he is now on the orthographic stage.
1. Language is one of the foundations of education because how can you teach if you cannot talk? Hence, it is tantamount for a teacher to understand how children learn a language in order to tailor their teaching methods accordingly, because you cannot teach a student who has zero English skills the same way you would teach an advanced speaker.
ReplyDelete2. Reading is one of the most important things that a child needs to learn. As a child learns to read, one of the first things that he learns are the syntax and semantics of language. Syntax is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences, and semantics is the meaning of a word, phrase or sentence. Even at a young age, children know that sentences generally beging from left to right because that is what they see in books or learn in school. The last aspect that children develop is the phonetics, which pertains to the sounds and structure of words. Once they have learned this, reading becomes easier.
1. Teachers should understand how children learn language because language is the form of communication the child does in doing things. Since the learning and experience of a teacher is great compared to a child, the teacher needs to understand what a child want through the cues or gestures they are make to tell the teacher what they want.
ReplyDelete2. During the initial stage, children use knowledge of letter names or sounds letter relationships to recognize words. When a child begins to read by processing sound letter correspondence they move to alphabetical stage, children use partial phonetic cues to recognize words particularly on the initial and final letters. Once children use the sounds of letters to read, they have entered the alphabetic stage. The child realizes that they sounds make up spoken language and they now have the ability to phonetically decode words. The process is use of letter sequences and spelling patterns to recognize words visually without phonological conversation. This happens when a child accumulate sufficient knowledge of spelling patterns so that they are able to recognize these similarities and store in their memory.
1. Teacher should understand how children learn a language so that the teacher will know her strategy to communicate and properly teach her students. Knowing the child’s way of learning help the teacher device techniques on how to impart knowledge effectively to the students.
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