Theories In Reading Instruction

THEORIES IN READING INSTRUCTION

BOTTOM-UP READING MODEL 

Emphasizes a single direction

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Emphasizes the written or printed texts

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Reading is driven by a process that results in meaning

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PART TO WHOLE MODEL

FEATURES OF BOTTOM-UP MODEL Believes the reader needs to:  Identify  Link

letter features

these features to recognize letters

 Combine  Link

letter to recognize spelling patterns

spelling patterns to recognize words

 Then

proceed to sentence, paragraph, and textlevel processing

VIEWS OF SOME RESEARCHERS ABOUT THE BOTTOM-UP READING MODEL:

Leonard Bloomfield: 

the first task of reading is learning the code or the alphabetical principle.

 The

meaning of the text is expected to come naturally as the code is broken based on the reader’s prior knowledge of words, their meaning and the syntactical patterns of his or her language.

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Writing is merely a device for recording speech

Emerald Dechant: “

Bottom-up models operate on the principle that the written text is hierarchically organized and that the reader first process smallest linguistic unit, gradually compiling the smaller units to decipher and comprehend the higher units.

Charles Fries:  The

reader must learn to transfer form the auditory signs for language signals to a set of visual signs for the same signals.

 The

reader must automatically respond to the visual patterns.

 Learning

to read…. Means developing considerable range of habitual responses to a specific set of patterns of graphic shapes

Philip B. Gough:  Reading

 Lexical,

is strictly a serial process

syntactic and semantic rules are applied to the phonemic output which itself has been decoded from print.

TOP-DOWN READING MODEL Suggest that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers with :  Meaning An

driven processes, or

assumption about the meaning of a text.

The proponents generally agree that:  Comprehension

is the basis for decoding skills, not

a singular result  Meaning

is brought to print, not derived from print

TOP-DOWN READING MODEL A reading model that:  Emphasizes

 Says

what the reader brings to the text

reading is driven by meaning

 Proceeds

from whole to part

Also known as: 

INSIDE OUT MODEL

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CONCEPT-DRIVEN MODEL

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WHOLE TO PART MODEL

VIEWS OF SOME RESEARCHERS ABOUT THE TOP-DOWN READING MODEL:

Frank Smith  Reading

is not decoding written language to spoken language

 Reading

does not involve the processing of each letter and each word.

 Reading

is a matter of bringing meaning to print

Kenneth S. Goodman “

the goal of reading is constructing meaning in response to text .. It requires interactive use of graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cues to construct meaning.”

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it is one which uses print as input and has meaning as output. But the reader provides input too, and the reader, interacting with text, is selective in using just as little of the cues from text as necessary to construct meaning.”

FEATURES OF TOP-DOWN APPROACH: 

Readers can comprehend a selection even though they do not recognize each word.

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Readers should use meaning and grammatical cues to identify unrecognized words.

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Reading for meaning is the primary objective of reading, rather than mastery of letters, letters/sound relationships and words.

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Reading requires the use of meaning activities than the mastery of series of word-recognition skills.

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The primary focus of instruction should be the reading of sentences , paragraphs, and whole selections

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The most important aspect about reading is the amount and kind of information gained through reading.

INTERACTIVE READING MODEL 

Attempts to combine the valid insights of bottom-up and top-down models.

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It attempts to take into account the strong points of the bottom-up and top-down models, and tries to avoid the criticisms leveled against each.

INTERACTIVE READING MODEL 

A reading model that recognizes the interaction of bottom-up and top-down processes simultaneously throughout the reading process.

VIEWS OF SOME RESEARCHERS ABOUT THE INTERACTIVE READING MODEL:

Emerald Dechant  The

interactive model suggests that the reader constructs meaning by the selective use of information from all sources of meaning without adherence to any set order.

 The

reader simultaneously uses all levels of processing even though one source of meaning can be primary at a given time.

Kenneth Goodman  An

interactive model is one which uses print as input and has meaning as an output

 But

the reader provides input too, and the reader interacting with the text, is selective in using just as little of the cues from text as necessary to construct meaning

David E. Rumelhart  Reading

is at once a perceptual and a cognitive

process.  It

is a process which bridges and blurs these two traditional distinctions.

A

skilled reader must be able to make use of sensory, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information to accomplish the task.