Decoding
해독
Turning letters into sounds to read a word.
Reading rests on two things: decoding letters into sounds, and understanding the language. Neither alone produces reading.
A child still struggling to decode has no capacity left for meaning, which is where reading aloud without comprehension comes from.
So early practice aims to make decoding nearly automatic, and only then shifts weight to comprehension.
- The pairDecoding plus language comprehension makes reading.
- SignalReading aloud but unable to retell means decoding used all the capacity.