Orthography

Question One Part A It is important to ease reading of written communication for the recipient of the message. If it is not easy to read the message, the chances are that the readers will not read it. To ease reading, there are several strategies which I can employ in my writing: Provide a short, descriptive subject line. According to Mayfield (2016), a receiver of an email decides whether the email is important or not based on the subject line of that email. Therefore, the subject line…

Dyslexia is linked to phonological processing because children with dyslexia are apt to have deficits in phonological processing. To identify a child’s deficits in phonological processing, it’s important to understand its parts. Phonological Processing is a term used for a category of four oral language processing abilities related to the sounds in words, to associate those sounds with letters, and to read. These four oral language abilities are verbal short-term memory, rapid serial naming,…

Before reading engagement with vocabulary: Before reading the story, I will put up the vocabulary on Popplet for the student to see. Then together as a group, we will read and sound out the words together. Next, I would ask the student what the words means and type it out on Popplet. Once done, I will remind the student to keep those words in mind while reading the story. During reading engagement with vocabulary: During the reading, whenever the vocabulary show up on the page we would finish…

Although Sousa argues that there is no such thing as reading brain. “There is no single part of the brain that does reading” (139). The first function of constructing the brain the visual processing or orthography. This first function is the visual processing which gives meaning to marks in a page. Words are nothing, if they don 't have meaning, so we have to learn the meaning of these words. For instance every time we see the combination of the words b,…

1. What is the demography of the language? The Chechen language, or Tsjetsjeens, is a branch of Vainakh of the Northeast Caucasian language family (Nakh-Daghestanian) and has an approximate number of 1.2 – 1.5 million speakers. According to Thompson (2013), the language can be found in the Republic of Chechnya (Russia), Dagestan, Georgia, and can also be found in Central Asian countries like Turkey and Jordan as a result of the Chechen diaspora. 2. What historical events led to the physical…

Phonemic awareness skills transfer more easily if the languages have similar alphabets, roots, orthography, and phonemes (Moughamian, Rivera & Francis, 2009). Moreover, Spanish language reading comprehension skills tend to enhance English reading skills because students use comprehension strategies they already know from their native language. The same…

As reported speech and language disorders have statistically risen to be the most prevalent developmental condition throughout early childhood, the need for intervention and therapeutic methods have increased over the past few years (Vellutino, Fletcher, Snowling, & Scanlon, 2004). Communication is the imparting or interchange of opinions and thoughts, and for a variety of reasons is the key component in building and maintaining social relationships (Harris et al, 2011). Speech itself requires…

To be able to teach phonics, you first have to understand what the term phonics represents and why exposure to phonics is essential to a child’s reading and literacy development. When the word phonics is used, commonly this is described as a means of teaching reading and is not associated with writing and spelling, nevertheless phonics is essential to the development of writing, spelling and reading. Children need to learn phonic skills to be able to blend sounds, segment sounds and manipulate…

Three (3) words I did not understand completely and their meanings: 1) Ubiquitous is the presence of something all over the world simultaneously. For instance, eBay is a ubiquitous online store; we can buy anything we desire anywhere in the whole world (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ubiquitous). 2) Bulky is getting something with a very large quantity. For instance, a bulky soccer sneakers (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bulky). 3) Swath is: 1) a moving machine…

1. Postcolonialism, Censorship and History of South Africa 1.1 Postcolonialism To determine the definition of “post-colonial” and “postcolonial”, as well as the hermeneutical difference between the terms, is not merely a question of orthography or terminology. It is largely depending on the historical period that is being looked at, the way one decides to explore it, and evidently what is being looked for. The hyphenated term “post-colonial” seems to imply an epoch or a distinct historical…