Dec 17, 2020 14:28
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Portuguese term

silábico-alfabético sem significado

Portuguese to English Other Education / Pedagogy
The term is one of the stages of learning to read in Portuguese, which are: Pré-silábica, silábica, silábico-alfabético e alfabética.
From a medical report for a student with learning disability:

"Paciente apresentam-se fase silábico-alfabético sem significado"

I don't think these stages of learning correspond directly with English, any ideas?

Proposed translations

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syllabic–alphabetic stage of no clinical significance

Children in the syllabic–alphabetic stage produce spellings such as〈PAL〉for palo ‘stick’ in which some letters stand for phonemes and others stand for syllables.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3854926/

(Considering it's from a medical report, I assumed clínico was implicit in "sem significado [clínico]".)

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Note added at 6 days (2020-12-24 12:34:29 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you, Jack! Reading your following question, though, leaves me with no doubts that “sem significado” refers to the clinical assessment of the specific learning stage the child is at, the syllabic-alphabetic one. All 4 sentences bellow end with a clinical assessment or recommendation.
“Memória visual: adequado para idade.
Raciocinio lógico: tem que ser direcionado.
Leitura: silábica alfabética sem significado.
Cálculos mais no concreto.”
I hope this helps!
Thank you again, and Merry Xmas :)
Example sentence:

Children in the syllabic–alphabetic stage produce spellings such as 〈PAL〉 for palo ‘stick’ in which some letters stand for phonemes and others stand for syllables.

Peer comment(s):

agree Julia Caldana : At first, I thought "sem significado" referred to the meaning of the words (in this case, the syllables) that are being pronounced. After reading your answer, though, I believe the clinical interpretation makes more sense in this context. Cheers, Cláudia!
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Thank you so much for your comment, Julia :)
agree Clauwolf
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Muito obrigada!
agree Leandro Serrano
32 days
Obrigada, Leandro!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks for your help. I am giving this the points as it got the most support, and even the poster of the rival answer thought this was correct! Personally, I am not totally convinced and think the meaning is more about the child being at the syllabic alphabetic stage of reading but without knowing the meaning of the words, "
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syllabic- alphabetical without (lexical) meaning

Page 33: “Under the psychogenetic perspective it is clear that in the acquisition of the process of writing the child progresses through four stages: pre-syllabic, syllabic, syllabic-alphabetical, and alphabetical (Portilla and Teberosky, 2007; Portilla, Peró and Teberosky, 2009).”
Peer comment(s):

agree Mark Robertson
17 hrs
Thank you! :)
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