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Polysemy, Preproduction, Saccades, Phonotactics, Pity - Coggle Diagram
Polysemy
Definition
A term used by linguists to describe words with more than one meaning. These meanings are related in some way.
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Counterexamples
Monosemy, words that only have one meaning.
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Not quite a counter example, but should not be confused with homonymy, or a word that has multiple meanings which are not related in any way.
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Preproduction
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Counterexamples
This time should NOT be seen by educators as any indicator of student capability. Rather, educators should provide the learner space and support while they are gathering knowledge and understanding of their new language.
Early Production, Speech Emergence and Intermediate Fluency, all of which describe later phases in Krashen's language learning theory.
Definition
Also called the silent period, a period of time when multilingual learners begin to understand the speech of others.
Example
My Multilingual learner from El Salvador who did not formally speak in class (she spoke informally with peers and myself in Spanish) until her fifth week of school when she raised her hand to share an answer in math. Before this time, she was gathering information and building her understanding of English.
Saccades
Elaboration/Example
When they eye is moving, information is not processed and sent to the brain. When the eye is still, the brain processes information. Our brains piece together the still moments with the moving moments creating what we perceive to be a fluid movement/visual effect. When we read, our eye jumps from word to word so our brain can process the information.
This is a similar phenomena to modern movies. Movies are not actually moving pictures but a series of of many still photographs being played in such a way that our brain does not perceive the stillness, but a fluid motion.
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Counterexamples
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Focusing on a single point for an extended period of time, with the understanding and brain process that the point is not moving. The brain does not interpret fluid movement.
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Definition
The jumping eye movement that occurs while reading, despite the feeling that our eye is moving fluidly as we read.
Phonotactics
Example
Phonemes that sound logical to speakers of that language based on the understood rules of the language.
Glark is a possible English word over tlark and dlark. The tl is not a typical phoneme, however the gl is, such as in glower or glow.
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Pity
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Definition
A term to describe the sad, often belittling feeling we may feel when we look at those experiencing perceived misfortune. This often results from insufficient information about a specific person, topic, or situation.
