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From: Kate Gladstone <kate@global2000.net>
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Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1176] Re: Spanish speakers learning to read
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Andres writes:
> Kate:
>
> The example of the verb was used because in most ESL programs they
> make references to verbs when they teach people to read. The idea is
> that there are a lot of abstract concepts that people encounter when
> they are learning to read. ...
I didn't doubt that - I did (and do) doubt that we can equate knowledge
of these abstract concepts with literacy. (I learned the word "verb" -
and similar grammatical abstractions - long after (not during) the year
when I learned how to read. How many first-graders, after all, hear or
see the word "verb"?)
>
> Regarding what Ken meant with the word "our" was "are", as in "there
> are bilingual programs."
>
Why would a highly educated man like Ken choose to spell the word "are"
in this way? (I can't believe that he could have done it by accident,
given all that he knows about the English language.) Does some rule
exist (for when to spell "are" as "our") that I didn't hear about when
I went to school?
Yours for better letters,
Kate Gladstone - Handwriting Repair
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