Workplace List: the following message is from Tom Sticht.  Donna




>Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 11:50:33 -0700

>From: tsticht at znet.com

>Subject: Sticht books

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>  jataylor at utk.edu

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>Colleagues: I am pleased to announce that the National Adult Literacy

>Database (NALD) of Canada (www.nald.ca) has made available two early,

>out-of-print books by colleagues and myself that have had considerable

>influence on the field of adult literacy education in several

>industrialized nations.

>

>One book is called Reading for Working and was influential in promoting

>workplace literacy and the National Workplace Literacy Program of the U. S.

>Department of Education and functional context education as recommended by

>the focus on contextualized education in the Secretary of Labors Commission

>on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). It also presents data on the

>relationships of parent's education to the literacy achievement of their

>children.

>

>The second book, Auding and Reading: A Developmental Model was reviewed by

>Dr. William Blanton of Indiana University and he said that it was "

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>most significant contribution made on reading and listening in recent years

>Indeed, it is a reference shelf item." (note this was circa 1974!).  It is

>the first book applying modern cognitive science to literacy development

>with children and adults. E. D. Hirsch, Jr. refers to information from the

>book as "Sticht's Law' in his book on The Schools We Need and Why We Don't

>Have Them (1996) and his most recent book The Knowledge Deficit (2006)

>cites the book for its focus on predicting reading development from

>listening ability .

>

>Following are citations for the two books, web sites, and tables of

>contents. They can be downloaded for free in either html or pdf formats.

>Enjoy!

>

>Tom Sticht

>

>

>Reading for Working: A Functional Literacy Anthology

>

>1. Sticht, Thomas G. (1975). Reading for Working. Retrieved May 05, 2006,

>from http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/sticht/rfw/cover.htm

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>Table of Contents

>Chapter

>

>1.      Introduction

>

>Part I

>Determining Functional Literacy Demands of Jobs

>Introduction

>

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>2.      Readability of Job Materials

>3.      Performing Job Reading Task

>4.      Literacy in Relation to Job Knowledge, Job Performance, and Supervisor

>Ratings

>5.      Using Personnel Data Files to Estimate Reading Demands of Jobs

>6.      Commentary on Methodologies for Determining Literacy Demands of Jobs

>

>Part II

>Reducing Discrepancies Between Literacy Skills of

>Personnel and Literacy Demands of Jobs

>Introduction

>

>

>7.      Methods for Reducing Literacy Demands of Jobs.

>8.      Functional Literacy Training: A Case Study

>

>Part III

>Collected Papers on Functional Literacy

>Introduction

>9.      Reading and Career Education

>10.     A Career-Oriented Literacy Training System for the Armed Services

>11.     Needed: A Functional Literacy Curriculum for the Secondary School

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>2. Sticht, Thomas G., Beck, Lawrence J., Hauke, Robert N., Kleiman, Glenn

>M., & James, James H.(1974). Auding and Reading. Retrieved May 05, 2006,

>from http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/sticht/aar/cover.htm

>

>Auding and Reading: A Developmental Model

>

>

>Contents

>

>I.      Introduction

>         Language and Learning

>         Previous Reviews on These Topics

>         A Call for Theory

>         And Yet Another Literature Review

>         Overview of the Report

>

>

>II.     The Developmental Model of Auding and Reading

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>III.    The Languaging Process

>         The Nature of the Conceptual Base

>         The Acquisition of the Conceptual Base

>         The Acquisition of Languaging Ability

>         The Phonological System

>         Semantics: Individual Words as Holophrases

>         Semantics: Meanings of Individual Words

>         Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge

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>IV.     The Development of Listening/Looking and Auding/Reading Processes

>         Hearing and Seeing: The Continuity of Organismic and Environmental

>Information

>         The Memory System

>         The Development of Looking and Listening as Attentive Processes

>         Auding as Listening

>         Auding as Languaging

>         Auding as a Tracking Task

>         Reading as Looking

>         Reading as Languaging

>         Auding and Reading Compared

>

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>V.      A Review of Literature Related to Four Hypotheses Derived From the 

>Model

>         Hypothesis 1

>         Hypothesis 2

>         Hypothesis 3

>         Hypothesis 4

>

>

>VI.     Summary and Implications

>         Review of the Hypotheses

>         Some Accomplishments and Limitations of the Modeling Effort

>         Implications