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    The document discusses language comprehension from both narrow and broader senses. In the narrow sense, comprehension involves constructing an interpretation of sounds or letters. In the broader sense, it also involves extracting new information and storing it in memory. There are two processes of comprehension - the construction process, where listeners identify structure and meaning to derive an interpretation, and the utilization process, where listeners use information for purposes like answering questions or following orders by identifying content and searching memory. Comprehension occurs rapidly through searching for relevant context and relationships between linguistic symbols, information, and meaning to arrive at an interpretation. Context also influences comprehension, as people seek contextual consistency even if it means inventing an unspoken word.

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    What is Comprehension?

    Why People Listen?

    LANGUAGE
    COMPREHENSION
    5TH MEETING OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC CLASS, UNP GRADUATE PROGRAM
    ROOM C
    MONDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2010
    GROUP 2: SAYUTI, SANTI, ROSSY
    WHAT IS
    COMPREHENSION?
    NARROW SENSE The mental processes by which listeners or readers take in
    sounds or letters that strikes their ears or eyes and use
    them to construct an interpretation of what they think the
    speaker or the writer intended to convey

    BROADER SENSE The mental processes by which listeners or readers take in


    sounds or letters that strikes their ears or eyes, extract the
    new information it conveys and store it in memory. On a
    question, they search for information asked for and
    compose an answer. On an order or request, under most
    circumstances they figure out what they were meant to do
    with a sentence and do it
    THE TWO PROCESSES OF
    COMPREHENSION

    Construction Process The way listeners or readers construct an


    interpretation of a sentence from the sounds or
    letters, started by identifying surface structure
    and end up with an interpretation that resembles
    an underlying representation

    Utilization Process The way listeners or readers utilize sounds or


    letters for further purposes; for registering new
    information, answering questions, following
    orders, registering promises, etc.
    UTILIZATION PROCESS
    1. On hearing an utterance, listeners identify the speech act,
    propositional content, and thematic content
    2. They next search memory for information that matches the given
    information
    3. Finally, depending on the speech act, they deal with the new
    information:
    a. If the utterance is an assertion, they add the new information to memory
    b. If the utterance is a yes/no question, they compare the new information
    with what is in memory and, depending on the match, answer yes or no
    or maybe
    c. If the utterance is a WH- question, they retrieve the wanted information
    from memory and compose an answer conveying that information
    d. If the utterance is a request, they carry out the action necessary to make
    the new information true
    CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
    Rapidly dynamic, growing, and active process of searching for relevant Information, knowledge,
    relationships experience, information,
    knowledge, experience,
    information, knowledge, …

    Grammatical Lexical Information, knowledge,


    Structure meaning experience, information,
    knowledge, experience,
    information, knowledge, … Context

    Linguistic
    Symbols INTERPRETATION

    Sounds or Words

    Be alarmed that this process takes only a few milliseconds for the concluded comprehension
    depending on the frequency of lexical detection device stimulation someone has
    Relationship between Context and
    Comprehension

    Interestingly, we don’t seem to listen or take in letters to each word


    individually and comprehend its meaning in isolation; we seek
    contextual consistency and plausibility, even if it comes to adding a
    sound or inventing a word that wasn’t actually spoken.

    1. Kita tahu bahwa _da itu berjumlah 4 untuk mobil


    2. Kita tahu bahwa _da itu adalah salah satu merek motor terkenal
    3. Kita tahu bahwa _da itu nama binatang khas China
    4. Kita tahu bahwa _da itu kendaraan tanpa mesin yang beroda dua
    A GAME FOR MIND
    PROCESS
    As soon as Ahmad got home, he picked up a box of unused items that he
    had already packed the other and threw them all away into a trash can at
    the corner of Jalan Cendrawasih

    True Wednesday Tuesday Come after Day Never

    It’s not true that Wednesday never comes


    after a day that’s not Tuesday

    Tidaklah benar jika dikatakan kalau hari


    Rabu tidak akan pernah datang setelah
    hari yang bukan hari Selasa
    THANK YOU
    May Allah shelter us under His Hidayah and Rahmat

    We hope we can get some knowledge out of this presentation


    and we shall welcome anyone for a very warm discussion

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