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George,
(As you see, I am far behind in reading the emails.) I reallly agree with your last paragraph.
Bella Hanson
"George Demetrion" <george.demetrion@lvgh.org>
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Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1026] Re: Teaching reading to kinesthetic learners and Patricia
More fundamentally, Pearson shows that the evolution of reading theory
through the 20th century was historically constructed in which the politics
of literacy can not be easily separated from the pedagogy of literacy.
In terms of Pearson's own view, he's a major advocate of balanced reading
theory, which he represents as a radical middle ground that he hopes will be
drawn upon to end the wars on reading theory. In this, he opposes
approaches which are primarily bottom up (skill-based) and top-down (the
more extreme versions of whole language. In his discussion of history, the
current period is marked by a phonemic revival. That could shift in
succeeding years. Whether it does or doesn't may have as much to do with
political culture as it does with sound reading instruction.
In any event, P. David Pearsons, along with Michael Pressley and Victoria
Purcell-Gates promote the balanced approach to reading instruction and they
provide a good deal of research in making their respective cases.
Here's one intelligent statement on balanced theory:
http://reading.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d144.html
Here's another:
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/timely/briiss.htm
For more, just do a google search for (a) balanced reading theory, (b) P.
David Pearson (c) Michael Pressley (d) Victoria Purcell-Gates.
There is some serious work being done on balanced reading theory which
merits serious consideration, the substance of which I have not begun to
address here.
In making this argument, I do not suggest that the balanced theory is
uncontestable. Moreover, the last thing I want to do is to enshrine a new
orthodoxy. What I do stress is the substantial research and theoretical
work that has gone into the balanced approach, a perspective that contains
considerable subtlety and various differences of emphases within an
overarching framework.
Perhaps there's at least as much about adult literacy education, which, as a
field, we >don't< know about than what we do know, though we do know much.
If that is the case, perhaps there's a need for more tentativeness in our
collective claims, along with a need for ongoing critical experimentation
and hypothesis formation.
George Demetrion
----- Original Message -----
From: "tom zurinskas" <tzurinskas@yahoo.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:30 PM
Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1023] Re: Teaching reading to kinesthetic learners
and Patricia
> Thanks John,
>
> Check out the history of "Reading in the Twentieth
> Century" by P. David Pearson
> http://www.ciera.org/library/archive/2001-08/200108.htm
>
> He shows how reading instruction is swinging back like
> a pendulum to phonetics/phonics again for initial
> instruction. Research on "phonemic awareness" and the
> National Reading Panel were instrumental in this
> swing. Interestingly, a new instruction method in
> Scotland shows that a rather than phonics, the better
> way to teach is to use "synthetic phonetic spelling"
> for learners. In USA Dr John Henry Martin did used a
> similar system with 100 schools. The book "Writing to
> Read" shows that k-2 learners could learn to read and
> write simultaneously. In both studies the transition
> to traditional spelling was positive.
>
> The drawback with these systems is that they use
> special symbols and are not keyboard friendly.
> Basically they are meant to be forgotten. But
> truespel is different. It is not meant to be
> forgotten. It uses regular letters, so it's keyboard
> friendly. It shows stress in a word, so it is the
> first and only "pronunciation guide spelling" of USA
> English. It is meant to replace the various
> nonstandard pronunciation guides in our present
> dictionaries. It is also meant to be a standard
> translation guide phonetic spelling. A pronunciation
> guide truespel book is forthcoming shortly.
>
> I am a retired govt worker with the FAA, who mainly
> did research and quality assurance there. Like then
> I'm more interested in helping out and don't know how
> to push a product for profit. That's why truespel is
> available for free to any learner/instructor at
> http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/truespel/transpel.htm
> Quality control is maintained.
>
> I'm glad to support those who would use truespel. It
> should be possible on the computer screen to have
> learners drag phonemes into string and hear words
> spoken by the computer. Truespelling can also be a
> good accent reduction tool.
>
> Cheers from Greenacres
>
> Tom Z
>
>
>
>
> --- John Nissen <nissen@freeuk.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The research seems to show that getting learners to
> > write
> > phonetically is an excellent path to phonemic
> > awareness,
> > and thence to reading.
> >
> > What would be nice, is if the phonetic writing
> > produced
> > phonetic sounds, giving immediate feedback to the
> > writer.
> > This could be built into a product such as
> > WordAloud,
> > see www.cloudworld.co.uk.
> >
> > If anybody is interested, we could discuss how such
> > a
> > system might work, using Truespel (or similar
> > phonic notation based on the alphabet). Note that
> > because there are more sounds in English than
> > letters of the alphabet, letter combinations have to
> > be used.
> >
> > The next step after phonic writing with Truespel (or
> > similar phonic notation) would be to produce a
> > chordal
> > keypad especially designed for direct phonic input,
> > where
> > each key action produces a defined phonetic sound
> > (or sound modification), covering the 50-odd
> > phonetic
> > sounds of the English language. Note that that
> > there
> > are more phonetic sounds than phonemes (generally
> > put at 44, by the way) because of allophones and
> > glotal stop.
> >
> > Cheers from Chiswick,
> >
> > John
>
> =====
> Read "Truespel Book One: Analysis of the Sounds (Phonemes) of USA English
http://www.1stBooks.com/bookview/16593
> Convert text to truespel USA accent by copy/pasting text at:
http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/truespel/transpel.htm
> Read all about truespel at truespel.com.
>
>
>
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