4. • Reading was viewed simply as
SPEECH WRITTEN DOWN.
influenced by the behaviorist
view on language, which dwells
on spoken language
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5. PSYCHOLINGUISTIC VIEW
• Views reading as a complex information-
processing skill.
• Emphasizes the role of cognition in an
interaction of reader and text
MEANING
• Schema Theory
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6. The Schema theory recognizes
that background knowledge
facilitates the reader’s
comprehension of text.
Rose
Men are from Mars, Women are
from Venus.
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7. SIGNIFICANT VIEWS
• KEN GOODMAN
• NOAM CHOMSKY
• HOLDAWAY
• LEV SYMYONOVICH VYGOTSKY
• TEALE
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8. GOODMAN
• Reading is a psycholinguistic
guessing game
• Reading is an active process
• Capitalizes on children’s prior
strengths, past experiences and
knowledge
GOODMAN READING MODEL
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9. CHOMSKY
Reading to a child:
• aids literacy skills
• increases interest in books and in
learning to read.
• enhances background information and
sense of story structures
• familiarization with language of books
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10. HOLDAWAY
• Children learn how to read naturally
in the home environment and
interaction with parents.
• Children emulate the reading model
set up by the parents.
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11. VYGOTSKY
• Children’s all higher mental functions
are internalized social relationship.
• Children increase their independent
engagement in reading activities
through interaction with literate
adults.
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12. TEALE
• Reading is acquired through socially
interactive and emulative behavior.
• Social functions and conventions of
reading are acquired through
interactive literacy events.
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13. “We read to know
we are not alone.”
- C.S. Lewis
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