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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ม.ค. 2025
- Language structure requires integration of phonology with morphology and etymology, thus enabling the dyslexic learner to understand the language. This webinar is presented by Dr Jennifer Petrich, co-owner Literacy Dr, LLC
Professionals are increasingly integrating morphological structure in their literacy instruction/intervention, but many have received neither the instruction on the interrelation of phonology with morphology and etymology nor the importance of their inclusion from the beginning of reading instruction. This presentation reviews research supporting morphology as the agent that binds together the semantic, orthographic, and phonological aspects of a word and includes activities to enhance their students' abilities to perceive structure and meaning directly from print. These abilities facilitate the shift from the sublexical pathway (decoding) to the lexical pathway (automatic word recognition) of the brain, bolstering both fluency and comprehension.
Course Description
This presentation will give attendees an understanding of the interrelation between all parameters of a word: semantics, morphology, etymology, and phonology. It will explain how writing systems are different from spoken language, and that the primary purpose of both is to convey meaning. In addition, it will demonstrate that grapheme choices are driven by etymology, and that understanding how to investigate the etymology, morphology, and phonology of words is an excellent way to help dyslexic readers improve their spelling, writing, and vocabulary levels. It will give attendees an explicit, systematic way of approaching and presenting to dyslexic learners a word's structure and relatives using word sums and matrices, both of which are historically and currently used in linguistics to analyse words and their constituents.
This presentation will also present current research on reading models and how reading works in the brain. Participants will learn about Seidenberg and McClelland's original triangle model of reading (1989), Ehri's orthographic mapping model (2014), and the current constituency binding model presented by Bowers and Kirby (2017). Participants will also learn about Coltheart's dual-route model of the brain (2001) and how the encoding of the abovementioned parameters of language relates to the different routes we use for reading. Essentially, the goal of all reading instruction should be automatic access to meaning via print. This goal requires a shift from the dorsal brain pathway to the ventral pathway. Understanding how to use morphological instruction to facilitate this for all learners is crucial for fluent reading and comprehension.
From attending the course
Participants will understand the interrelation of morphology, etymology, and phonology and how it is crucial to understanding the English writing system
Participants will be able to investigate a word using the four questions framework
Participants will be able to use online resources to further their understanding of our writing system on their own
Participants will be able to use word families and matrices to teach students about the morphemes, phonemes, and graphemes of our language and how they are related
Participants will understand how semantics, orthography, and phonology are bound in the brain
Participants will be able to explain how morphological instruction affects the way readers bind and encode word identity parameters and how those are accessed in the brain when reading
Pre-requisites
We recommend that delegates buy the following book which can be purchased from Amazon: Investigating English Spelling: An Interactive Guide to Understanding How English Spelling Works : Petrich PhD, Jennifer, Johnson, Bradley K.: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Eligibility
Open to all
Target Audience
All ages
Timings
This training course is for one hour on Tuesday, 14 January 2025 from 3.30-4.30pm on Zoom. Delegates will enjoy a two-week window of access to the webinar recording, allowing them to watch it as many times as they wish, starting the morning after the event. Even if you're unable to attend the live session, you'll still have the opportunity to access the recordings for two weeks if you book a place.
