alphabetic principle

collocation in English

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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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Examples of alphabetic principle

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The alphabeticprinciple is more relevant to reading responses to words than to providing sound labels for isolated letters.
The children's use of acrophones from letter names does not imply an ability to use the alphabeticprinciple.
This discussion should not be taken to imply that all the children in the studies learned the alphabeticprinciple without aid from teachers.
The net effect of this alternative would be an alphabeticprinciple of lexical storage, coinciding with standard practice and with a variety of psycholinguistic results.
The latter, whatever its imperfections in implementing the alphabeticprinciple, is alphabetic because it generally maps grapheme units to phonemes.
In contrast, as early as preschool, children often spell their name wholly or partially in conventional form, prior to comprehending the alphabeticprinciple.
The children were making elementary use of the alphabeticprinciple, which involves the identities of letters and phonemes within words.
This occurred even though no other source of recoding consistent with the alphabeticprinciple was available to them.
Simple, regular grapheme - phoneme links could facilitate learning the alphabeticprinciple.
Such a source is expected to be consistent with the alphabeticprinciple.
In the first phase (the preliterate or precommunicative phase), the child is aware of the purpose of written language, but does not yet grasp the alphabeticprinciple.
As a result of their inference, the children responded to some letters with sound labels that did not coordinate with their use of the alphabeticprinciple.
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.
Literacy instruction and children's growing grasp of the alphabeticprinciple play a major role in spurring individuals to begin attending to the sounds of words.
The alphabeticprinciple and learning to read.
This inference may be regarded as inappropriate only on the assumption that sound labels for isolated letters ought to coordinate transparently with use of the alphabeticprinciple.
Kindergartners who are beginning to grasp the alphabeticprinciple and move into phonetically based spelling may continue to use letters from their own name when they spell.
This book taught the alphabeticprinciple and phonemic awareness.
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