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This theory is one that I think would not only help with teaching/learning new languages, but would also help with students that have speech impediments-- from my experience, phonics often leave those students confused due to the same letters/syllables making different sounds when used in different words, but if they have a clean connection to what it belonged to, it make create a clearer pathway for them.

Kelsey

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The Whole Language Theory to me is sort of like putting pieces of the puzzle together. Rather than just teaching students to rely on phonics, students are taught to connect the words to their actual meaning; this allows students to engage prior knowledge while also scaffolding.

I found a pretty good website that briefly explains the theory and why Goodman created it!
https://team1module3.weebly.com/goodman.html

Kelsey

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Nicola,
I agree teachers should encourage students to make associations with words so that they can learn them and easily recognize them. The picture accurately shows that because the guy had never seen a table before so pronouncing the word was difficult due to the lack of prior experience.

Mona

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Nina,
I agree with you, most times when I misinterpret something while reading it's simply because I either read too fast or like you said the word began and ended with the same letters. This happens so easily, I wonder how we can teach students to avoid the miscues.

Mona

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I agree with Nina! Imagine if reading could always be a fun, immersive activity like the book describes. I feel that I would have learned Spanish a lot faster if we had time to read stories together with pictures and other supports.
Nicola

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This breakdown is important because I feel that we need both in differing circumstances.

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Similar to the psycholinguistic theory, this reading approach ties students' prior knowledge and experience to words. Rather than sound a word out, the teacher would encourage students to associate words with their whole meaning. The following image helps display this. I got the image from the following website https://www.ectutoring.com/phonics-based-reading-whole-language-approach.

Nicola

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This theory reminded me of how we use immersion to learn other languages. Imagine if we immersed languages in multiple languages from the beginning! I can only imagine how much they would learn.

Nina

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Despite the weird computer generated voice, this seems to be a pretty good explanation of what psycholinguistics is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcKIc2PXMd4

Nina

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Mona,

This is so true! I read books that i like super fast, but if I am not engaged in a book, my mind will often wander when I am reading, which forces me to go back and reread.

Nina

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Miscues are when a reader misinterprets what the text actually says. I find that when I do make miscues, the word that I misread has the same first and last letter as the word that it really is.

Nina

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Syntactic cues have to do with our understanding of text based on the order of words, and semantic cues have to do with our understanding of text based on the meanings of words.

Nina

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Psycholinguistic Theory to me is about how a reader reads. If they are familiar with the material and the style of writing it is much easier for the reader to comprehend. I was in a Great Books program in college, it was much more difficult for me to read something that was written in old English rather than a text that had been recently translated. Without the language cues I was used to, reading the Old English texts took a lot longer and required much more focus for me. I also watched this video that helped me understand how to use this theory for students who regularly struggle to read.

Nicola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=cYIxP5Q-pEQ

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The Whole Language Theory is an extension of the Psycholinguistic Theory that suggests that reading is natural process that children will acquire if they are immersed in high-quality literacy environments and exposed to authentic literacy experiences (Tracey & Morrow, 2017, pp.66). In other words, this theory focuses on how children learn language arts using rich literary instructional practices.

-Mona

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The Psycholingiuistic Theory revolves around the idea that reading is a language process simply because readers rely on their language cues to assist in reading text easily. The text mentions how when a piece of literature is consistent with the reader's expectations and life experiences, the reading can be read fluidly and when a reading is inconsistent with the reader's expectations, the reading will be boring and a slower read (Tracey & Morrow, 2017, pp.65-66). Personally, I agree with this because when I read books that I can relate to or am interested in, I read through them in a breeze but when I chose a book that isn't relatable or interesting, I either take a while to finish the book if at all. Those books that meet my expectations are easily read because the language I'm used to is present supports the idea of the Psycholinguistic Theory. Also, this theory looks at predictions as a key part of the reading process, which happens when readers try to guess what's happening next in their reading by revealing letters at time of upcoming words and making an hypothesis that's tested when reading continues.

-Zchimon "Mona" Herndon

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I struggle with miscues all the time due to have dyslexic tendencies. I struggle with reading too fast, causing the words to "blur" together, ultimately leaving me with having to slowly reread sentence.

Kelsey

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I definitely agree that literature consistent with a reader's experiences and expectations, it is easier and more enjoyable for them to read. Personally, I know that the books I connected with, were the ones that I looked forward to reading, and often finished in short periods of times. I wonder if this ultimately leads to the genre/topics students tend to read.

Kelsey