Decoding is defined as which process?

Decoding is defined as which process?

• A. Translating print to meaning
• B. Recognizing words by sight
• C. Translating print to speech and mapping graphemes to phonemes
• D. Writing letters from sounds

Answer: (C)

Decoding is the process of turning written words into spoken language by linking letters to their sounds and blending those sounds together. This means translating print to speech and mapping graphemes (letters) to phonemes (sounds). That core idea is what lets you sound out unfamiliar words, using the alphabetic principle that letters represent sounds. So, for example, seeing a word like "cat" you map c to /k/, a to /æ/, t to /t/ and blend them to produce /kæt/. This is different from recognizing words by sight, which is about instantly reading familiar words without sounding them out, and different from writing letters from sounds, which is encoding.

Decoding is the process of turning written words into spoken language by linking letters to their sounds and blending those sounds together. This means translating print to speech and mapping graphemes (letters) to phonemes (sounds). That core idea is what lets you sound out unfamiliar words, using the alphabetic principle that letters represent sounds.

So, for example, seeing a word like "cat" you map c to /k/, a to /æ/, t to /t/ and blend them to produce /kæt/. This is different from recognizing words by sight, which is about instantly reading familiar words without sounding them out, and different from writing letters from sounds, which is encoding.