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Teaching Reading To Speakers Of Non-Romanized Languages, Scott Alkire Jul 2004

Teaching Reading To Speakers Of Non-Romanized Languages, Scott Alkire

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Speakers of non-Romanized languages face special challenges in learning to read English: a new alphabet, the left-to-right direction of English text (new to many of these learners), and, most significantly, the letter-sound correspondences of English, which are relatively complex among Romanized languages. Fortunately, strategies for overcoming these challenges are presented in a text by the famous linguist Leonard Bloomfield and the lexicographer Clarence Barnhart (Bloomfield & Barnhart, 1961). Though Bloomfield and Barnhart’s text was designed for teaching native-English-speaking children to read, with minor modifications it can be used to successfully teach speakers of non-Romanized languages to read as well. This …


Qualitative Inquiry Into Art History: A Tribute To Arthur P. Bochner, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D. Jan 2004

Qualitative Inquiry Into Art History: A Tribute To Arthur P. Bochner, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

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This poem is dedicated to the author's mentor Arthur P. Bochner, Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida.


Growing Faithful Children In Media Cultures, Mary E. Hess Jan 2004

Growing Faithful Children In Media Cultures, Mary E. Hess

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