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Teaching Reading To Speakers Of Non-Romanized Languages, Scott Alkire
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 …
A ‘New’ Kutir-Nahhunte Ii Text, Steven W. Holloway