alphabetic principle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalphabeticandprinciple
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alphabetic
adjective[not gradable]
uk/ˌæl.fəˈbet.ɪk/us/ˌæl.fəˈbet̬.ɪk/
An alphabetic language has a letter or combinations of letters and marks to represent each speech sound in ...
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principle
noun
uk/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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(Definition ofalphabeticandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofalphabetic principle
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Thealphabeticprincipleis more relevant to reading responses to words than to providing sound labels for isolated letters.
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The children's use of acrophones from letter names does not imply an ability to use thealphabeticprinciple.
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This discussion should not be taken to imply that all the children in the studies learned thealphabeticprinciplewithout aid from teachers.
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The net effect of this alternative would be analphabeticprincipleof lexical storage, coinciding with standard practice and with a variety of psycholinguistic results.
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The latter, whatever its imperfections in implementing thealphabeticprinciple, is alphabetic because it generally maps grapheme units to phonemes.
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In contrast, as early as preschool, children often spell their name wholly or partially in conventional form, prior to comprehending thealphabeticprinciple.
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The children were making elementary use of thealphabeticprinciple, which involves the identities of letters and phonemes within words.
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This occurred even though no other source of recoding consistent with thealphabeticprinciplewas available to them.
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Simple, regular grapheme - phoneme links could facilitate learning thealphabeticprinciple.
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Such a source is expected to be consistent with thealphabeticprinciple.
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In the first phase (the preliterate or precommunicative phase), the child is aware of the purpose of written language, but does not yet grasp thealphabeticprinciple.
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As a result of their inference, the children responded to some letters with sound labels that did not coordinate with their use of thealphabeticprinciple.
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Whether the children are directly taught these correspondences may be less important than whether they learn the "alphabeticprinciple" - that letters of words systematically map onto phonemes in words.
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Literacy instruction and children's growing grasp of thealphabeticprincipleplay a major role in spurring individuals to begin attending to the sounds of words.
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Thealphabeticprincipleand learning to read.
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This inference may be regarded as inappropriate only on the assumption that sound labels for isolated letters ought to coordinate transparently with use of thealphabeticprinciple.
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Kindergartners who are beginning to grasp thealphabeticprincipleand move into phonetically based spelling may continue to use letters from their own name when they spell.
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This book taught thealphabeticprincipleand phonemic awareness.
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