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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 …
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 31, No. 2/3, Summer/Fall 2004, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 31, No. 2/3, Summer/Fall 2004, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring 2004, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring 2004, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
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Naccs 31st Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 31st Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
El Pueblo Unido…:Strength in Unity
March 31-April 4, 2004
The University of New Mexico