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Role of Speech in Reading
• In earlier days, people would not have questioned that talking in inherently linked to reading - silent reading was rare:

• St. Augustine in his "Confessions"
– remarks about monk Ambrose to reading without obvious speech
– "But while reading, his eyes glanced over the pages, and his heart searched out the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent.
Role of Speech in Reading
• Practical importance of this issue -
– How do we teach reading
• phonics method emphasizes grapheme/phoneme conversions
• whole-word method- emphasizes direct connection between the written word as a patttern and its meaning
– How do we teach the deaf reader
– How do we deal with dialect mismatch
Why Propose Speech Process in Reading
• Do you hear your voice or others during reading?
• Recording electrical impulses on skin that lies directly over speech muscles (electromyography or EMG)
– while reading, these muscles are activated!
– Hardyck and......

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