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Phonological Awareness Training and Short-Term Working Memory: Clinical Implications.
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Gillam, Ronald B.; van Kleeck, Anne – Topics in Language Disorders, 1996
This article finds that two aspects of phonological working memory, phonological coding and phonological recoding, appear to be important elements in the relationship between phonological working memory and phonological awareness. It suggests an approach to training in phonological awareness and reports an intervention study in which phonological…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Emergent Literacy, Intervention
Issues in Adult-Child Interaction: Six Philosophical Orientations.
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van Kleeck, Anne – Topics in Language Disorders, 1985
The article discusses the contributions as well as shortcomings of six philosophical orientations to social interaction research: (1) rationalism, (2) empiricism, (3) pragmatism, (4) social constructivism, (5) phenomenology, and (6) systems theory. Two approaches--the ecological and the ethnographic--are seen to combine several philosophies to…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Interaction, Research Methodology
Precursors to Literacy: Normal Development.
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van Kleeck, Anne; Schuele, C. Melanie – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
To better understand language-disordered children, the article describes prelinguistic development in normal children including such precursors to literacy as literacy socialization, a life filled with literacy events and functions, language awareness, word consciousness, ability to segment sentences into words, phonological awareness, and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Influences, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Precursors to Literacy: Assessment and Intervention.
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Schuele, C. Melanie; van Kleeck, Anne – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
The need to teach precursors to literacy as part of preschool language therapy with language-disordered children is stressed. Assessment and intervention approaches include developing the child's ability to use language in instructional contexts and facilitating language awareness (such as word and phonological consciousness). (DB)
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Preschool Education
Emphasizing Form and Meaning Separately in Prereading and Early Reading Instruction.
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van Kleeck, Anne – Topics in Language Disorders, 1995
This article proposes that meaning and form (the sound-letter correspondences) are both important in beginning reading, but that initially they should be taught separately. Support for this position is provided, and a two-stage model of preliteracy development is offered, with the first stage emphasizing meaning and the second stage emphasizing…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Literacy Education, Phonics
Emergent Literacy: Learning about Print before Learning to Read.
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van Kleeck, Anne – Topics in Language Disorders, 1990
This article reviews the literature regarding the seeds of literacy in preschool students. Conclusions indicate that children learn many basic concepts of print communication from daily experience with its use well before any ability to decode writing emerges. Games and other everyday interactions with print are recommended for facilitating…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Learning Activities