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Teachers’ acquisition of knowledge about English word structure 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Previous research suggests that teachers’ knowledge about English word structure (e.g., the phonological structure of words
and common orthographic patterns in English) may be limited, although this knowledge is important for effective teaching of
word decoding. This study examined teacher education students’ knowledge about word structure, and improvements in their knowledge
as a result of instruction, using three tasks: graphophonemic segmentation, classification of pseudowords by syllable type,
and classification of real words as phonetically regular or irregular. Participants came from a special education certification
program and included both preservice and inservice teachers. Results indicated that prior preparation to teach reading influenced
participants’ initial performance on two of the three word-structure tasks (all but graphophonemic segmentation); however,
prior experience in teaching reading did not influence word-structure knowledge. A subset of participants who received specific
instruction about word structure improved their knowledge relative to a comparison group of teacher education students who
did not receive word-structure instruction. Prior preparation did not influence participants’ responsiveness to instruction.
Conclusions support the viewpoint that teacher education must include information about English word structure for educators
who will teach reading and suggest that sufficiently intensive instruction may be important in developing word-structure knowledge. 相似文献
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An important element of learning to read and write at school is the ability to define word boundaries. Defining word boundaries
in text writing is not a straightforward task even for children who have mastered graphophonemic correspondences. In children’s
writing, unconventional word segmentation has been observed across a range of languages and contexts with more occurrences
of hyposegmentation (failure to separate two or more written words with a space) than hypersegmentation (written words are
split into more than one segment). However, it is still unclear how frequent these errors are and the relationships of these
written error patterns to the child’s development in oral language, spelling and reading remains relatively unexplored. To
address these issues, unconventional written lexical segmentations in Brazilian Portuguese children’s text production during
their first years at primary school (Year 1 to Year 3) were examined in relation to different cognitive and linguistic measures
and patterns of spelling errors. Results reveal that in Portuguese the establishment of word boundaries in written text is
not explained by visuospatial skills or limitations in processing resources (working memory). In contrast higher occurrences
of hyposegmentation patterns were associated with lower levels of reading, vocabulary, verbal ability and morphological awareness
whereas hypersegmentations were rarer and related to lower levels of reading and morphological awareness and typically only
occurred in the initial stages of learning to write (Year 1). Occurrences of hyposegmentations as well as hypersegmentations
were also related to spelling errors which reflected children’s poor phonological skills. 相似文献
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Because the spelling of many words in the English language (and in many other languages as well) depends on their morphemic structure, children have to have some knowledge about morphemes in order to learn to read and write. This raises the possibility that children gain much of their explicit knowledge about morphemes as a direct result of learning to read and to spell. We report two large-scale longitudinal studies that support the idea of this kind of causal connection. In the first study children’s success in spelling the inflexion at the end of regular past verbs predicted their performance in two morphological awareness tasks a year later. In the second study the children’s consistency in spelling morphemes predicted their ability to define new words on the basis of their morphemic structure. We conclude that the experience of learning to read and write does affect people’s knowledge of morphemes, and we argue that the causal relationship between morphemic knowledge and reading and writing is probably a two-way one. 相似文献
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Advocates of constructivist science recommend that school science begins with children’s own constructions of reality. This
notion of the way in which students’ knowledge of science grows is closely paralleled by recent research on teachers’ knowledge.
This paper draws on case study evidence of teachers’ work to show how two experienced teachers’ attempts to develop alternative
ways of teaching science involved reframing their previous patterns of understanding and practice. Two alternative interpretations
of the case study evidence are offered. One interpretation, which focuses on identifying gaps in the teachers’ knowledge of
science teaching, leads to theconstructivist paradox. The second interpretation explores theconstructivist parallel, an approach which treats the process of teachers’ knowledge growth with the same respect as constructivists treat students’
learning of science. This approach, the authors argue, is not only more epistemologically consistent but also opens up the
possibilities of helping teachers lead students towards a constructivist school science.
Specializations: Teachers’ knowledge and culture, educational change, qualitative research methodology.
Specializations: Teachers’ knowledge, imagery and teachers’ work, teacher collegiality, supervision of teachers’ work. 相似文献
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Margarida Alves Martins Cristina Silva 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2001,16(4):605-617
Following several studies on the relationship between phonological awareness, children’s knowledge of letter names and their understanding of the alphabetic code, we pose the hypothesis that children’s knowledge of letter names may contribute to their analysis of the oral segments of words, thereby enabling them to produce writing in which some of the sounds are represented by appropriate letters. The participants were 80-syllabic 5-year-old kindergarten children, who were assigned to 2 experimental and 2 control groups and submitted to phonological and letter knowledge tests. We asked the children in the experimental groups to write a set of words in which either the initial sound (Exp. G. 1) or the middle sound (Exp. G. 2) coincided with the name of a letter known by the child; the children in the control groups were asked to write a set of control words. The results show that the introduction of facilitating words prompts syllabic children to produce writing in which some of the sounds are represented by appropriate letters; Exp. G. 1 gave better results than Exp. G. 2. Finally, there is a positive relationship between the results achieved by children in phonological and letter name tests and the number of sounds they write phonetically. 相似文献
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Sara J. Hines Deborah L. Speece Caroline Y. Walker Lisa M. W. DaDeppo 《Reading and writing》2007,20(6):539-552
We conducted two case studies to evaluate the effectiveness of individualized remedial reading instruction linked to direct
measures of student learning and transfer. The participants were two first grade children at serious risk of reading failure.
The instruction targeted decoding of one syllable short vowel words and first emphasized onset-rimes and then phoneme manipulation.
Forty words organized into 10 rime patterns were targeted for instruction. Probes consisting of all the instructional words
were administered before each instructional session to monitor student progress. We also administered transfer probes to determine
if the children could apply their knowledge more broadly. Instruction with onset-rime units yielded excellent maintenance
and near transfer (novel words containing instructed rimes) but not far transfer (novel words derived from uninstructed rimes).
The instructional change to phoneme manipulation yielded better far transfer for one of the two children. We consider the
importance of administering measures that assess more than what is taught to get an accurate portrait of children’s responsiveness
to instruction. 相似文献
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Chronoula Voutsina 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,79(2):193-214
This study analysed the different types of arithmetic knowledge that young children utilise when solving a multiple-step addition
task. The focus of the research was on the procedural and conceptual changes that occur as children develop their overall
problem solving approach. Combining qualitative case study with a micro-genetic approach, clinical interviews were conducted
with ten 5–6-year-old children. The aim was to document how children combine knowledge of addition facts, calculation procedures
and arithmetic concepts when solving a multiple-step task and how children’s application of different types of knowledge and
overall solving approach changes and develops when children engage with solving the task in a series of problem solving sessions.
The study documents children’s pathways towards developing a more effective and systematic approach to multiple-step tasks
through different phases of their problem solving behaviour. The analysis of changes in children’s overt behaviour reveals
a dynamic interplay between children’s developing representation of the task, their improved procedures and gradually their
more explicit grasp of the conceptual aspects of their strategy. The findings provide new evidence that supports aspects of
the “iterative model” hypothesis of the interaction between procedural and conceptual knowledge and highlight the need for
educational approaches and tasks that encourage and trigger the interplay of different types of knowledge in young children’s
arithmetic problem solving. 相似文献
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Recently, there have been increased calls for enhancing preschool children’s mathematics knowledge along with increasing calls
for preparing preschool teachers to meet the demands of new preschool mathematics curricula. This article describes the professional
development program Starting Right: Mathematics in Preschools. Focusing on four episodes that revolve around the topic of
equivalent sets, it demonstrates how engaging preschool teachers with challenging tasks may promote their subject matter knowledge
as well as their pedagogical content knowledge, leading to an interweaving of knowledge and practice. Assessment of the program
included assessing the children’s knowledge. Results indicated that students of participating teachers learned to be more
flexible and to give more possible answers than students of non-participating teachers. 相似文献
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The present study builds on research that indicates that teachers play a key role in promoting those interactional behaviours
that challenge children’s thinking and scaffold their learning. It does this by seeking to determine whether teachers who
implement cooperative learning and receive training in explicit strategic questioning strategies demonstrate more verbal behaviours
that mediate children’s learning than teachers who implement cooperative learning only. The study also sought to determine
whether students who receive training in explicit questioning strategies demonstrate more explanatory behaviour than their
untrained peers, and, as a consequence, do these same students demonstrate more advanced reasoning and problem-solving skills
on follow-up reasoning and problem-solving tasks. The study involved 31 teachers in two conditions, the cooperative + strategic
questioning condition and the cooperative condition, and two groups of students from each teacher’s classroom. The results
show that the teachers in the cooperative + strategic questioning condition used significantly more mediating behaviours than
their peers in the cooperative condition. The study also showed that the children in these teachers’ classes engaged in more
elaboration and obtained significantly higher scores on the follow-up reasoning and problem-solving tasks. The study demonstrates
the importance of explicitly teaching strategic questioning strategies to children during cooperative learning. 相似文献
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Measuring teachers’ content knowledge of language and reading 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In the context of a longitudinal, four-year study of reading instruction in low-performing, high-poverty urban schools, we
surveyed teacher knowledge of reading-related concepts, and established a modest predictive relationship between teachers’
knowledge, classroom reading achievement levels, and teachers’ observed teaching competence. There were significant associations
among these variables at the third and fourth grade levels. To obtain this result, measures of teacher content knowledge in
language and reading were refined in a three-stage process. Our purpose was to explore the type and level of questions that
would begin to discriminate more capable from less capable teachers, and that would have a predictive relationship with student
reading achievement outcomes. After experimenting with measurement of K-2 teachers’ content knowledge (Form #1), we piloted
a Teacher Knowledge Survey with 41 second and third grade teachers in one study site (Form #2). We then refined and expanded
the Survey (Form #3) and administered it to 103 third and fourth grade teachers in both project sites. Teachers’ misconceptions
about sounds, words, sentences, and principles of instruction were pinpointed so that professional development could address
teachers’ needs for insight and information about language structure and student learning. 相似文献
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《Scientific Studies of Reading》2013,17(3):299-316
Numerous studies have documented the decoding difficulties of adult basic education (ABE) students in the United States. However, the native speakers of English (NSE) and nonnative speakers of English (NNSE) in ABE classes present different reading behaviors. To explore this, 90 low-intermediate readers (45 NSE and 45 NNSE) were matched on pseudoword reading (Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-Revised; Woodcock, 1987). Their substitution errors in word recognition (Diagnostic Assessments of Reading; Roswell & Chall, 1992) were then classified as phonetically plausible, phonetically implausible, or real words. Both groups made similar numbers of phonetically implausible errors. However, although both possessed comparable pseudoword decoding skills, NSE made more real-word substitutions than NNSE, and NNSE made more phonetically plausible substitutions than NSE. This suggests that ABE teachers should not only be aware of how much decoding students know but also to what extent they actually use that knowledge when reading. 相似文献
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Conclusion Social studies teachers have numerous resources for using technology in their classrooms. Even though using these resources
may enhance instructional goals, most teachers do not take advantage of them. Developing a vocabulary in the language of technology
will increase the likelihood that social studies teachers will use existing technologies. This article is only a start. Teachers’
technology related vocabularies should be constantly expanding. A great source for expanding one’s vocabulary of technology
related words is What is.com (http://whatis.com). This site provides accessible definitions of hundreds of technology-related words, phrases and acronyms. 相似文献
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This paper investigates the relationship between phonological processing and reading ability amongst grade 4 and grade 5 Arabic
speaking children in Egypt. In addition to measuring reading level, the study assessed the children’s ability to identify
rhymes, delete individual phonemes from words, retain and manipulate sequences of digit names and rapidly access verbal labels.
Further literacy and literacy-related tasks required children to decode novel letter strings, to distinguish similar words,
to identify words within letter chains and to correctly spell dictated text. A non-verbal ability measure was also included
to allow comparisons to be made between a group of poor readers with good non-verbal skills (dyslexics) with a control group
of chronological-age-matched normal readers with equivalent average scores on the non-verbal task. Results indicated relationships
between literacy ability, decoding and phonological processing within this cohort, as well as identifying differences between
dyslexic and control groups that suggest Arabic dyslexics show signs of poor phonological skills. The study supports the view
that Arabic dyslexic children have impairments in the phonological processing domain. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to concurrently examine the development of written language across different writing tasks and
to investigate how writing features develop in preschool children. Emergent written language knowledge of 372 preschoolers
was assessed using numerous writing tasks. The findings from this study indicate that children demonstrate knowledge about
writing before beginning school and receiving formal instruction. There was clear evidence to support the claim that universal
writing features develop before language-specific features. Children as young as 3 years possess knowledge regarding universal
and language-specific writing features. Preschoolers appear to progress along a continuum from scribbling to conventional
spelling. Although this progression is sequential, children’s writing proficiency is task dependent. Implications of these
findings on writing development are discussed. 相似文献
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Susanne A. Denham Hideko H. Bassett Katherine Zinsser 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2012,40(3):137-143
Young children’s emotional competence—regulation of emotional expressiveness and experience when necessary, and knowledge
of their own and other’s emotions—is crucial for social and academic (i.e., school) success. Thus, it is important to understand
the mechanisms of how young children develop emotional competence. Both parents and teachers are considered as important socializers
of emotion, providing children experiences that promote or deter the development of emotional competence. However, compared
to parents, early childhood teachers’ roles in socializing young children’s emotional competence have not been examined. Based
on the findings from research on parental socialization of emotion, in this theoretical review we explore possible teacher
roles in the development of young children’s emotional competence. Additionally, we suggest future research focusing on early
childhood teacher socialization of emotion, and discuss theoretical and practical benefits of such research. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that dynamic assessment based instruction increases children’s learning by using
a quasi-experimental research design in Korea. In this study, dynamic assessment is defined as a measurement method of the
zone of proximal development (ZPD) as well as the qualitative and quantitative diagnostic information for individual children.
In addition, dynamic assessment based instruction is defined as a teaching method using the diagnostic information types in
order to increase children’s learning. In this study, 59 children between the ages of 4 and 5 participated. Three types of
number concept achievement tests (pre-test, parallel test, and post-test) for each age group were developed and the content
validity, face validity, and split-half reliability were examined. After conducting the pre-test, the children of each age
group were divided into an experimental group and a control group. Dynamic assessment based instruction regarding number concepts
was undertaken only with the experimental group for 4 weeks. Both groups took a post-test after completing the 4 weeks of
classes. The ANCOVA technique wa ls used for data analysis. The result of this study shows that dynamic assessment based instruction
has a significant effect on children’s learning of number concepts (in the case of 4-year-old children, F = 12.34, p<0.01;
5-year-old children, F = 20.03, P<0.01). Therefore, dynamic assessment based instruction should be used widely for children’s
cognitive learning. 相似文献
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Mugyeong Moon 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2001,2(1):22-31
The purpose of this study is to investigate teacher perspectives on peer relation problems of young children. Examined are
teacher definition of and assessment criteria for peer relation problems, and the most poignant peer relation problem perceived
by teachers. Three experienced American preschool teachers are interviewed and observed for one year. It is found that the
teachers define children’s peer relation problems as part of developmental processes and individual differences. The teachers
judge peer relation problems in terms of children’s emotional well-being, intentions, and social skills, and perceive children’s
control of others as the most serious peer relation problem in the classroom. It is posited that the teachers’ perspectives
rely on the emotional and motivational bases of children’s relationships with peers. The related issues are discussed and
implications for teaching practices are provided. 相似文献
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Explicit instruction in orthographic structure and word morphology helps Chinese children learn to write characters 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Jerome L. Packard Xi Chen Wenling Li Xinchun Wu Janet S. Gaffney Hong Li Richard C. Anderson 《Reading and writing》2006,19(5):457-487
Previous research in alphabetic languages had shown that children learning to write are sensitive to morphological information, and that it serves as a resource that they draw upon as they acquire writing skills. In Chinese as well, sensitivity to morphological and orthographic information had been found to predict children’s ability to read characters. The present study investigated whether raising children’s awareness of the morphemic and orthographic structure of Chinese words would lead to beneficial results in their learning to write Chinese. An experimental group of 144 first graders from two primary schools in Beijing, China were given instruction designed to increase their knowledge of the orthographic and morphological structure of Chinese words. After two semesters, the experimental group’s ability to copy Chinese characters and to write them from memory were both found to be significantly better than a control group. Theoretical implications are discussed, including how writing benefits from the types of linguistic knowledge that underlie lexical storage and retrieval in reading and speech. Educational implications are also discussed, such as how drawing children’s attention to the morphemic components of Chinese words and the systematic features of Chinese orthography provides them with multiple sources of information they may utilize in learning to write. 相似文献
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Preparing special educators who are knowledgeable about evidence-based interventions for teaching reading to students with
reading difficulties and who are capable of using curriculum-based assessments to monitor student progress and differentiate
interventions is vital to the success of current school reform efforts. The primary purpose of this exploratory study was
to examine the effect of tutoring and using assessment to monitor the progress of struggling readers on preservice teachers’
(PSTs’) knowledge and preparedness to teach reading. Also of interest was whether reading scores of tutored students improved.
PSTs (n = 18) in an undergraduate reading methods course tutored at-risk second graders using an evidence-based intervention and
monitored students’ progress weekly. PSTs made significant growth on a measure of teacher knowledge about the structure of
language and on a survey of their preparedness to teach reading. A qualitative analysis of PSTs’ weekly reflections and final
reports revealed that the majority used curriculum-based assessment data to describe students’ response to tutoring and were
beginning to use that data to make instructional decisions. On average, tutored students improved reading fluency, but did
not demonstrate significant growth in reading relative to national norms. Implications and limitations of the study are described
and directions for future research are discussed. 相似文献