Learning Outcomes
- Describe the nature of different writing systems
- Differentiate the rules that govern grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
- Describe the standard reading model as a basis for further exploration
Activities for week 9
- Read Chapter 7
- Writing Systems
Activities for week 10
- Chapter Chapter 7
- A Standard Reading Model
Learning Activities
Living Language
Consider the language that you speak and think of the various dialects that might exist for it. In English, for example, you can think of how people speak in Western parts of North America versus the East Coast. Now compare these against the dialects of English in the United Kingdom, Australia, India, and New Zealand.
Now in imagining how these dialects sound (you can look at some movie clips from various regions), what are the phonemes that are common across them. Do they change a lot in terms of consonants or vowels?
