10/16/2014
Transcription
10/16/2014
10/16/2014 It’s Complicated : The Relationship Among Executive Functions, Working Memory and Oral Language and Reading Comprehension Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP www.soifercenter.com NJ Branch IDA October 24 – 25, 2014 © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Two days of Learning : An Overview Definitions, Explanations, Experiences • A Cognitive – Linguistic Model • Cognition • Attention and Executive Functions • Working Memory • Oral / Aural Language • Oral Language Foundations of Literacy • Components of Reading Comprehension © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 2 Think... Consider... Remember “Language is very difficult to put into words.” Voltaire © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 3 1 10/16/2014 A Cognitive-Linguistic Model • Cognition • Executive Functions • Working Memory • Oral / Aural Language © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 4 Language and Cognition (Bloom and Lahey 1978; Soifer 2006) COGNITION LANGUAGE Attention Content Use Executive Functions Memory Information Processing Form Affect Experience © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 5 Cognition Cognition is a general concept embracing all of the various ways of knowing: perceiving, remembering, imagining, conceiving, judging, reasoning. Language RRe Cognitive development also involves the methods a child uses to organize, store and retrieve information for problem solving and generalization. Working Memory » Nicolosi, Harryman and Kresheck, 1989 » Owens, 1988 © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 6 2 10/16/2014 Executive Functions © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 7 Executive Functions are important in showing what you know. Without good Executive Functions, you will not look as smart as you actually are. © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 8 A Bit of Neuroanatomy...Just a Bit © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 9 3 10/16/2014 What are the Executive Functions? • • • • Decision making and planning processes Invoked at the outset of a task Invoked when faced with a novel challenge Meta-cognitive strategies mediated by language • Management functions of the mind that activate integrate regulate a wide variety of mental functions © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 10 Executive Skills Thinking Skills to Select and Achieve Goals Guiding and Monitoring Behavior • Planning • Response Inhibition • Organization • Self-regulation of affect • Time Management • Task Initiation • Working Memory * • Flexibility • Metacognition • Goal-directed persistence © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 11 Self-Regulation • • • • Behaviors to guide, monitor and direct The “Ed Koch” syndrome Applied in specific settings Influenced by: – Personal processes – The environment – Your own behavior © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 14 4 10/16/2014 Sub-processes of Self-Regulation • Self-monitoring (self-observation) • Self-evaluation (self-judgment) • Self-reaction (behavioral adjustment) © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 15 Executive Functions and Language • Metacognitive strategies mediated by language (talking yourself through the thought process and/or task) • Language – – – A mediating force for thinking and reasoning Must pass, along with cognition through affective states Vygotsky (40 years ago) said, speech and language plays a central role in the development of self-control, self-direction, problem solving and task performance. © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 17 At the Heart of Executive Functions and Self Regulation ……. Language © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 18 5 10/16/2014 Core EF Processes that Affect Academic Performance (Meltzer, 2007) Planning and Goal Setting Organizing Self Monitoring / Checking Shifting Flexibly Prioritizing Memorizing © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 19 Core EF Processes: Areas of Academic Impact • Reading Comprehension • Written Language • Independent studying, homework and long-term projects • Test taking © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 20 Executive Functions and Reading Comprehension • Reading must make sense • Understanding is the result of planning to understand • Prioritizing leads to maximizing time and effort Language • Accessing background information helps organize new information • Self-checking enhances goal achievement • A flexible mindset provides opportunities for increased understanding • Understanding is improved by self-assessing © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. RRe Working Memory Slide 21 6 10/16/2014 Working Memory © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 22 Your memory is going? Which one? • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Visual Auditory Episodic Automatic Procedural Motor Associative Factual Interpretive Recognition Simultaneous Cumulative Categorical Sequential • Short-term • Working • Episodic • Autobiographical • Semantic • Procedural © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 23 Working Memory: Without it…huh? • Part of the information processing system • If you can’t hold onto it, then you can’t do much with it! • Interaction with the language system © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 24 7 10/16/2014 Working Memory is… • The capacity to hold and manipulate information in the mind over short periods of time • Responsible for temporary storage and processing of information • A mental workspace • Not influenced by prior learning or socio-economic factors • Different than short-term memory © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 25 A WM Task or Challenge! To multiply 67 x 43 in your head – requires: – – – – – mental storage of two numbers while, arithmetic rules are retrieved from LTM and applied, generating partial solutions that must be stored while further calculations are made, and then successfully integrated to come to a solution © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 26 Are there limits to WM capacity? • • • • In a word, “Yes!” Try this - 264 x 369 !!! Amount that can be held is limited Limit is influenced by what is to be remembered – Units – Meaningfulness – Background noise • Rehearsal boosts recall © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 27 8 10/16/2014 How does WM vary among people? • Personal limits • Fixed capacities • Two Profiles Verbal Comprehension Perceptual Reasoning Working Memory Processing Speed Female, 13 96 94 135 147 Male, 13 130 135 86 85 © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 28 How does WM work? A model summarizing the components of WM (based on Baddeley; Gathercole, and Alloway) Visuospatial short-term memory Central Executive Verbal short-term memory © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 29 Functions of Working Memory (WM) • Holding an idea in mind while developing, elaborating, clarifying or using it • Recalling from long-term memory while holding some information in short-term memory • Holding together in memory the components of a task while completing the task • Keeping together a series of new pieces of information so that they remain meaningful • Holding a long-term plan in mind while thinking about a short-range goal © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 30 9 10/16/2014 Examples of the Functions of Working Memory WM Function Holding an idea in mind while developing, elaborating, clarifying or using it Example Remembering the beginning of an instruction while listening to the rest; remembering the ending while performing the beginning. © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 31 Examples of the Functions of Working Memory, cont’d WM Function Recalling from LTM while holding some information in STM. Example Retrieving information to answer a question while also remembering all the parts of the question; remembering where you are going and why you are going there while also figuring out how to get there. © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 32 Examples of the Functions of Working Memory, cont’d WM Function Holding together in memory the components of a task while completing the task Example “There is no room for all that stuff inside my head. Every single time I try to write, I forget what I am doing. If I think about one thing like spelling, then I forget all about something else, like punctuation; or else, when I have to think hard to figure out what I’m going to write, my handwriting gets really messy.” (10 year old) © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 33 10 10/16/2014 Examples of the Functions of Working Memory, cont’d WM Function Keeping together a series of new pieces of information so that they remain meaningful. Example Sounding out multi-syllabic words (remembering the first syllable while working on subsequent syllables and then combining all the syllables to blend them into a word while manipulating the stress pattern); remembering the math procedures and specific facts while performing a multi-step math problem. © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 34 Examples of the Functions of Working Memory, cont’d WM Function Holding a long-term plan while thinking about a short-range need Example Rushing through math, resulting in a messy paper with careless errors (child feels it is necessary to work fast or risk forgetting what he or she is doing). © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 35 Working Memory and Learning • Measures of WM capacity – excellent predictors of academic success • Working memory overload impairs learning • Some difficulties in reading and math are predictable by poor WM capacity • Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Language Impairment © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 37 11 10/16/2014 Working Memory and Reading Comprehension • The goal of reading is comprehension • Comprehension depends on the capacity of Working Memory to: – – – – – – – – – – Decode words and attach meaning Construct individual meanings (words) into bigger meaningful units (sentences) Link information among sentences Language Notice inconsistencies between parts of texts Extract main ideas Create visuals Form new mental schemas RRe Draw inferences Monitor understanding Integrate new information with general knowledge Working Memory Working Memory is the workspace where comprehension takes place! © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 38 Oral / Aural Language © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 39 Think... Consider... Remember “Where children and teachers are doing real work, there is no way to separate out ‘language’ and what is called ‘content’.” Judith Wells Lindfors, Ph.D. Speech/Language Pathologist “The primary objective of school is to enhance cognition and language is critical in the meeting of this goal.” Marion Blank, Ph.D. Psychologist © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 40 12 10/16/2014 Keep in mind… © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 41 A Definition of Language “Language is a code, whereby ideas about the world are represented through a conventional system of arbitrary signals for communication.” Bloom and Lahey, 1971 © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 42 Components of Language • Language CONTENT – Something to say, understand, read or write – Often called semantics – Vocabulary, lexicon, concept knowledge • Language USE – The reasons to say, understand, read or write – Often called pragmatics – Social communication skills; purposes and intents • Language FORM – The means by which we say, understand, read or write © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 43 13 10/16/2014 The Components of Language Bloom and Lahey 1978 • CONTENT – Meaning component – Vocabulary and beyond Content Use Form • USE – Reasons to use language (purposes) – Purposes and intentions for using language – Conversational competence • FORM – Sound system – Word structure – Grammar © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 44 Language Content (Patience is a virtue; we will get to it tomorrow) Content: The meaning component of language – – – – – – – – – Meaning features of a word (“You walkin’ with me?”) Word knowledge (lexicon) Concept knowledge Word use (literal/figurative) Relationship between and among words Decoding Comprehension Word categorization Social implications, e.g., getting the joke Word retrieval © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 45 Language Use - Pragmatics • Use of language in social contexts – Social – cultural experiences that shape current relationships – Contexts – anything that gives meaning to what is said and done • Communicative functions or intentions • Presupposition • Discourse and narrative © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 46 14 10/16/2014 Language Form • The “observable features” of language • Phonology, Morphology, Syntax • Phonology – Segmental features • Consonants and vowels – Suprasegmental features • Intonation, stress, loudness, juncture, pitch and rate • Morphology – Bound (inflectional; derivational) – Unbound • Syntax – Is not grammar! © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 47 Oral Language Foundations of Literacy Language RRe Working Memory © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 48 The Literacy Continuum: We All Teach Language • Precursors of literacy: Oral language skills • Pre-literacy skills – Phonological awareness – Phonemic awareness • Early literacy skills – Decoding – Spelling • • • • • Components of reading comprehension Comprehension of different forms Comprehension strategies Literacy lapses Developing effective reading strategies © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 49 15 10/16/2014 Oral Language is the Foundation of Literacy Listen Content (meaning) Read Use Speak (reasons and intentions) Form (observable features) Write Decoding Vocabulary - Sentence Comprehension Paragraph - Text Comprehension © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 50 Listening Comprehension: A Precursor to Reading Comprehension • Components of Listening Comprehension – auditory processing – higher order language processes – grammatical structure and structure in relation to meaning – ability to organize and manage extended discourse © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 51 • Listening Comprehension requires – attention – working memory – implicit and explicit knowledge of linguistic rules – organization and storage – retrieval • Rarely involves single words • Successful listening depends in part on how hard you have to work to listen!! © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 52 16 10/16/2014 Listening and Reading Comprehension: Some Differences (Shepherd, 2008) Speakers • • • • • monitor comprehension use non-verbal cues use familiar vocabulary speech is contextualized connect ideas • can ask for clarification Authors • • • • • do not monitor comprehension cues are restricted to words use familiar and unfamiliar vocabulary text is decontextualized have to create text connections • have to seek clarification Readers Listeners © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 53 “How are the components of language related to literacy?” Content Use Form © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 54 Language Form (I) • Phonology: The essence of decoding • • • • • Segmental features Suprasegmental features Phonological awareness Speech production Phonological processing Language RRe Working Memory © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 55 17 10/16/2014 Key Vocabulary derived from “phon-” • Phonology – the study of the unconscious rules governing speech sound production • Phonetics – the study of the way in which speech sounds are articulated © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 56 • Phonics – the system by which symbols represent sounds in an alphabetic system • Phonological Awareness – the ability to reflect on and manipulate the structure of an utterance, for example into words, syllables or sounds, as distinct from meaning • Phoneme (and allophones) – smallest unit of sound – building blocks of words – (slight variations in phonemes that are predictable) © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 57 English is a mean language to learn to read and spell, that is! • Not transparent (bomb, comb, tomb) • Many more sounds than letters; letters are not the same as sounds! • 26 letters BUT many more sounds (+ allophones) • 25 consonant sounds – Created by sound moving through the vocal tract – Obstructed by lips, teeth or tongue • 15 * vowel sounds – Created by sound moving through the vocal tract – Shape of the lips and position of the tongue © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 58 18 10/16/2014 Allophones • Variation in phoneme production – systematic – rule based • Some examples – Vowel becomes schwa – Vowel nasalization – Consonant aspiration – Flapping of medial /t/ and /d/ © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 59 Allophones and Spelling Errors • Consonant Aspiration – spider sboydr – school sgol – hospital hosbidl • Vowel nasalization – want wot – sand sad – jump jup © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 60 Co-articulation: Some examples • bark /b/, /a/, /r/, /k/ • “r” controlled vowels – lurk, perk, first • write ride • writer rider • Tuck-truck; task-trash; dunk-drunk; dagger-dragon • Putting-pudding vs. tally-dally © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 61 19 10/16/2014 Never underestimate the power of a suprasegmental feature! • Intonation, stress, loudness, pitch, juncture, rate (Say that three times fast) • ? ! , . • “motorically” • Think “Seinfeld” – the low talker • Are you sure? • Jeetyet?; wenneyuhgoin’?; fuggedabowdit! • Whoa, cowboy! © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 62 Language Form (II) • Morphology: Rules for word formation (and their relationship to literacy) – Extension of meaning • Vocabulary and comprehension – Pronunciation • Word identification and fluency – Spelling © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 63 What’s a morpheme anyway? • Morpheme – smallest unit of meaning in a language – * Sometimes a morpheme is a phoneme! • Morphology – the study of word formation • Unbound (free) morpheme – can stand alone; a word • Bound morpheme – must be attached to other morphemes; the affixes of a language © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 64 20 10/16/2014 A Morphemic Family Tree Morphemes Unbound (free) Content Bound Function Prefixes Bound Roots Suffixes Inflectional Derivational © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 65 Roots, prefixes, suffixes • Roots – Greek • bibl = book; derm = skin; gram = written – Latin • aud = to hear; flex = bend; luc = light • Prefixes – Un (not)/unfair; re (again)/reread; mis (wrong)/misspell; pre (before)/prepay • Suffixes – change the part of speech – ist (noun) botanist; -fy (verb) purify; -able (adj.) bendable; -less (adj.) powerless © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 66 Unbound (Free) Morphemes • Lexical meaning of their own • Can stand alone; do not have to be combined with other morphemes • May be made up of one or more syllables • Are grouped into broad categories: – Content words – Function words – Compounds © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 67 21 10/16/2014 Bound Morphemes • Never function independently; only meaningful in combination with other morphemes • Prefixes • Bound roots • Suffixes – Inflectional – modify tense, possession, number – Derivational – change one part of speech to another • argue (v.) + ment argument (n.) • happy (adv.) + ness happiness (n.) © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 69 Inflectional or Derivational? Elementary my dear, Watsons • Inflections (affixes) added to nouns, verbs and adjectives DO NOT change the part of speech. • Derivational suffixes DO change the part of speech • Cheat sheet!!! – – – – – – People nouns end in Thing nouns end in Nouns can also be made by adding Verbs are created by adding Adverbs can be created by Adjectives are created by adding –er, -or, -cian, -ist –tion, -sion –ment, ity –ize, -ify –ly –ar, -ous, - ive, -al, -ful © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 70 Some examples of what that all just meant… • • • Decoding To a struggling reader a “big, long” word such as sleeplessness OMG!!! Reality is sleep less ness Comprehension [From Tyler and Nagy (1990)] – “A general indecision about the use of nuclear weapons could be a threat to national security.” – “A general indecisive about the use of nuclear weapons could be a threat to national security.” Spelling Silent letter spelling words – Oh woe is me! It is just a morphophonemic shift, that’s all! – sign signature hymn hymnal bomb bombadier © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 71 22 10/16/2014 Spelling as a Language Skill: Underlying Language Components • Spelling is a complex, language based skill. • Linguistic knowledge sources/foundations: – – – – – Phonology Orthography Semantic Morphology Clear and concise mental orthographic images © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 72 Language Form (III) • Syntax: Rules for comprehension and of sentences – Listening comprehension – Reading comprehension – Writing © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 73 Complex Sentence Types • S conjunction S (and, but) – He plays soccer and I play baseball; I like ice cream, but I don’t want yours. • Simple infinitive (to + verb) – He wants to beat me at Myst. • Adverbial clause (after, if) – After I get home, I watch television; If my mom isn’t home, I get a snack. • Prepositional clause (that) – I wish that I had the new Yo-Yo Ma CD. • Wh-clause (where, who) – Mom knows where I am; I don’t know who that is. © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 74 23 10/16/2014 Complex Sentence Types (con’t) • Multiple VP (but, after) – After we go to the circus, we like to stop for ice cream. • Relative clause (that) – They’re the kids that I play with. • Infinitive with wh- (how, when) – I know how to do that. • Gerund clause – Snowboarding is fun. © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 75 Anaphora (anaphoric reference) (Pearson and Johnson, 1978) • Pronouns • Locative pronouns • Deleted pronouns – Usually an adjective • Arithmetic anaphora • Class inclusive anaphora – A subordinate word substitutes for another word) • Inclusive anaphora – Can refer back to an entire phrase, clause or paragraph) • Deleted predicate adjective • Pro-verbs © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 76 Anaphora in “Real Time” John and his cousin went to the fair last week. They had a great time there. First, they took the roller coaster. It was really fast. John got sick. So did his cousin. Then they went to see the gorilla. What a crazy animal!. First, it threw peanuts at the crowd. Then it pounded its chest. Then, they went on six more rides, but they liked only three of them. John ate four foot-long hot dogs. His cousin ate seven Finally, they went home and were glad to be there. © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 77 24 10/16/2014 Where has all the anaphora gone? John and his cousin went to the fair last week. John and his cousin had a great time at the fair. First, John and his cousin took the roller coaster. The roller coaster was really fast. John got sick. So did his cousin. Then John and his cousin went to see the gorilla. What a crazy gorilla! First, the gorilla threw peanuts at the crowd. Then, the gorilla pounded its chest. Then John and his cousin went on six more rides, but they liked only three of the rides. John at four foot-long hot dogs. John’s cousin ate seven foot-long hot dogs! Finally, John and his cousin went home and they were glad to be home. © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 78 “How are the components of language related to literacy?” Content Use Form © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 79 Language Content • Content: The meaning component of language – Meaning features of a word (“You walkin’ with me?”) – Word knowledge (lexicon) – Concept knowledge – Word use (literal/figurative) – Relationship between and among words – Decoding Comprehension – Word categorization – Social implications, e.g., getting the joke – Word retrieval © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 80 25 10/16/2014 Word Tiers: Approaching the Problem of Which Words to Teach (Beck, McKeown, Kucan, 2002, 2008) • Tier One – Basic, everyday, familiar words • Tier Two-the larger, more significant group – More sophisticated – Have high utility for literate language users – Important in literacy; characterize written text – Not so common in common, daily conversation • Tier Three – Rare words – Apply to specific domains (Science, History) © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 81 Vocabulary is learned from context, or is it? • Misdirective contexts – Wrong way! • Nondirective contexts – No real help here! • General contexts – Kinda, sorta… • Directive contexts – Getting better but not quite direct instruction © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 82 Multiple Meaning Words: Developing a Mindset for Diversity • Math – foot, plot, power, drill, solid, peck, construct, difference, root, square, product, yard • Science – motion, crust, wave, core, force, degree, current, organ, fault , balance, host, matter • Social Studies – Key, race, ruler, country, bill, plain, market, crop, product, group, range, cabinet © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 83 26 10/16/2014 Figurative Language (Troia, 2011) • Nearly two-thirds of spoken English • One-third of teachers’ utterances – multiple meaning – idiomatic • Understanding and usage are critical – academic success • instruction • reading comprehension • written language – social success © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 84 “How are the components of language related to literacy?” Content Use Form © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 85 Language Use • Use: Purposes and intentions with which we use language – Communicative functions/purposes – Components of social communication • Styles and code of communication • Verbal, paralinguistic and non-verbal aspects – Discourse, conversational and story-telling skills – Reading with intent – Monitoring comprehension – Purposes for reading and writing © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 86 27 10/16/2014 Reading is supposed to make sense • Reading comprehension is an active process. Good readers – Before reading • Activate prior knowledge • Are aware of the purpose (read with intent) • Give complete attention – During reading • Check understanding (monitor comprehension) • Stop, reread, think • Use strategies flexibly – After reading • • • • Decide if goals have been met (purposes for reading) Evaluate understanding Summarize main ideas Look to other sources for more information © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 87 Connections Between Pragmatic Language Problems and Writing Problems (Troia, 2011) • • • • Planning Content Generation Revising Text Transcription © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 88 Reading is Language Too! Oral language is the Foundation of Literacy • Basic Linguistic Processes • Semantic Skills • Syntactic Skills • Higher Level Linguistic Processes • Language Processing and Comprehension • Narrative & Conversation Skills • Verbal Reasoning • Reading Comprehension • Writing © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 89 28 10/16/2014 Reading Comprehension © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 90 What is reading comprehension? (Hook, 2006) “Reading comprehension is the complex cognitive process involving the intentional interaction between reader and text to extract meaning.” © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 91 Components of Reading Comprehension • Decoding: Accuracy and Fluency • Language Comprehension (listening first!) – Semantics: Word, Concept knowledge – Syntax: Language Structure • World/Prior Knowledge • Metacognition – Thinking about thinking – Strategy knowledge and use • Motivation and Attention © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 92 29 10/16/2014 Processes Involved in Reading Comprehension and Writing (Hook, 2006) • Word identification and spelling • Language processing – – – – – Syntax Morphology Semantics Discourse Pragmatics © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 93 How are the Components of Language Related to Literacy? Kindergarten (Catts, et.al., 1999; Haynes, 2004) Grades 2 & 3 Phonological Awareness Decoding Rapid Automatic Naming Fluency Semantics Reading Comprehension Syntax © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 94 Requirements for Successful Comprehension • Decoding accuracy and fluency • Access to meanings of vocabulary used • Understanding of grammatical structure • Background knowledge • Active engagement © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 95 30 10/16/2014 Other Dynamics of Reading Comprehension Human and Otherwise • The Student • The Teacher • Non-Reading Variables © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 96 Components of Reading Comprehension: The Student • Decoding ability – accuracy and fluency • Oral Language Knowledge – Words and Concepts • Metacognitive Skills – Knowledge about • reading and different reading tasks (semantics/vocabulary) • yourself as a reader – Word and Sentence Structure • use of reading strategies (morphology and syntax) – Comprehension monitoring – Discourse • Motivation, Intention, and • Prior World Knowledge interest – Content and Social/Interpersonal Knowledge – Knowledge of Text Structure © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 97 Components of Reading Comprehension: The Teacher • How are texts chosen? • How is the lesson prepared? • How are strategies modeled and taught? • How is time allotted for teaching and learning? © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 98 31 10/16/2014 Components of Reading Comprehension: Non-Reading Variables • Personal Variables • Situation Variables • Task Variables • Text Variables © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 99 It’s Complicated ! Language RRe Working Memory © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 100 A Final Thought…… © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 101 32 10/16/2014 Who is this Child? Neurology Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D., 2006 Language RRe Personality © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Slide 102 It’s Complicated : The Relationship Among Executive Functions, Working Memory and Oral Language and Reading Comprehension Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP www.soifercenter.com NJ Branch IDA October 24 – 25, 2014 © 2014 The Soifer Center and Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. 33