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Theories of Literacy Acquisition (Behaviourism & Cognitive Psychology…
Theories of Literacy Acquisition
Behaviourism & Cognitive Psychology (Part-whole)
Bloomfield, L (1993)
Phoneme value - consonant clusters - vowel diagraphs, irregular patters
Meaning is cconstructed through visual informarion
Skills based
Advantages - Skills are taught, materials provided, clear expectations 7 focus on fluency & decoding
Disadvantages - no attention to S needs or interests. creativity limited, no differentiation, skills not in context
Psycholinguistic (Whole-part)
Based on readers knowledge, experience & schema
Smith&Goodman (1970) reader makes meaning from info in head
Relates to Cambourne's 8 conditions for learning
Advantages - Attention to S needs/interests, creative, variety of texts & purpose, engagement mirrors experiences
Disadvantages - No predetermined sequence of lessons or assessments, no focus on particular skill
Interactive & Transactional Sociocultural (Part-whole-part)
Readers interact with texts using life experiences AND k of language
Readers construct meaning by accessing prior K, can interact with a variety of texts
Disadvantages No systematic curriculum to follow, little attention to decoding strategies, no assessment
Readers Response Theory
Readers are not passive participants (Langer, 1995)
Readers not only engage with text the transact with it (Rosenblatt, 1978)
Stance - the way readers interact with text
To gather information (An efferent literacy stance)
To have an emotional response/ lived through experience. (Aesthetic literacy stance)
Interpretive Authority
Who's talking, the content & reaction to speaker (Flint&Riordan-Karlsson, 2001)
Teacher led - IRE (Cazden, 1988)
Teacher led, student centred discussions
Student led - referred to as literacy circles (Daniels, 2000). Op for S to have 'grand conversations' (Eeds&Wells, 1989)