ELT365 · Day 154 — Bottom-Up Processing

Idea — Bottom-up processing builds meaning from individual sounds, words, and sentences upward — decoding first, inference second.

Example — A learner hears ‘bi-cy-cle’ and constructs meaning phoneme by phoneme, then word by word.

Try — Give learners a sentence with one unknown word. Ask them to ignore it, read the rest, and guess the meaning from context.

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