Phoneme

Throughout the semester, I have been working with Jake: a delightful and driven third grade boy at Osceola Elementary School. He has remedial reading problems, for which I am there to help him work through. For this second case study, I administered additional reading assessments to Jake in order to gain further evidence for his instructional needs. The first test I administered to Jake was the Informal Reading Inventory. One section of the Informal Reading Inventory dealt with reading…

readers and this was tested by identifying words that share a common initial or final segment. The following subtests are considered to be supplemental subtests for adults. These include blending nonwords, segmenting words, segmenting nonwords and phoneme reversal. The test also includes phonological memory subtests. These include memory for digits, nonword repetition, and finally rapid naming of colors, objects, digits, and letters. These subtests were used based on studies that prove time…

contributor to antibiotic resistance. Horizontal gene transfer is the process where bacterial cells swap their genetic genes between cells allowing the new cells to become resistant while allowing the older cells to keep their resistant capabilities. This phoneme is one type of mutation of Bacterial cells that connects with antibiotic resistance due to the cells becoming resistant to the…

The cueing system is a formal structure that helps to enable young children decipher language and develop their reading (Moats, 2000). The system consists of three main categories; semantic, syntactic and graphophonic which aid in creating functional and fluent reading (Moats, 2000). Each category consists of supports in which students are to use in how they figure out unknown words they encounter whilst reading and also to gain meaning from the text, this can be seen in the graph below. Cueing…

unable to complete it with ease as they should be able to. “Emily Binks-Cantrell of Texas A&M University and her colleagues tested 66 professors of reading instruction for their knowledge of literacy concepts. When asked to identify the number of phonemes in a word, they were correct 62 percent of the time. They struggled more with morphemes, correctly identifying them 27 percent of the time.” The problems and struggles that youth of today are facing when learning phonics and the basic…

5-17%, it is the most common Learning Disability in the United States. I was a person who has been misinformed of what dyslexia truly is, up to this point. Knowing now that dyslexia means people cannot sound out unfamiliar words and differentiating phonemes, I learned valuable teaching tips as a future educator. If students are taught phonics, they will most likely read and write more accurately. In comparing English to education systems of different countries, they teach phonics at an earlier…

meaningful to highlight how essential it is to prioritize suprasegmental pronunciation since it results in better comprehensibility in the short run (Gilbert, 2002). I have chosen two problems of transfer that are segmental because they deal with phonemes (sounds), which can cause misunderstandings when not pronounced correctly. I consider the ‘‘th’’ sound as a sound that does not exist in Spanish and short and long vowel sounds /I/ versus /i/ and sounds that cause miscommunication when…

Considering that both American and Australian English are the same language, it might seem very strange how different the 2 dialects are. Both derive from British English, and are largely similar. Yet, there’s no denying that there are some very obvious differences. It can be said that the main reason is due to the fact that Australian English (as with other varieties, such as New Zealand English) have had less time to come into its own form as compared to America English. Hence, while…

structure of speech production mechanism involves how human beings produce sound (Honda 2003). When humans produce sounds it is one way in which humans communicate (Harrub, Thompson and Miller n.d.). Speech production mechanism involves different physiological structures that interact. Spoken language can be recognised through articulatory phonetics. Linguistic can be represented through articulator movements that in return make speech a way to transfer information. This can only happen with…

Languages. German, French, English, Italian, Mandarin or even Russian. They are thousands of languages still spoken today. By all means, language is a powerful and vital tool for every single person’s life. In fact, it is something that has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. It is something so unique and complex, yet so beautiful in the same time. Taking that into account, linguistics has a very difficult, yet significant job, in today’s society. Linguistics. What is it exactly?…