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Script Effects And Reading Strategies : Ideographic Language Readers Vs. Alphabetic Language Readers In Esl, Minglang Zhou

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The purpose of this study was to examine script effects of the Chinese Language on Chinese ESL/EFL students· reading strategies, in comparison to those employed by ESL students from alphabetic orthographic backgrounds.

Predicting Pronunciation From Spelling: Applying The Insights Of Transformational Grammar To The Teaching Of English: Tense And Lax Vowels, Barbara Hancock

MA TESOL Collection

No abstract provided.

Books For Children, J A F Lawson

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

F we think of a child entirely without books we think of him as very definitely deprived.

Why is that so? Why do we consider books to be a vital part of a child's life? In fact, why do children need books?

A Comparative Study Of Two Approaches To The Teaching Of Spelling, Freda M. Dysert

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Statement of the problem. It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine the desires of the elementary school teachers employed ln the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township, Marion County, Indiana, as to the sources of words for each of the grade levels one through six; (2) to use the majority opinion in the foregoing survey to establish word lists for each grade level; (3) to sample creative writing at given grade levels to detect number and kind of spelling errors made; (4) to compare these writings with others or a later date when emphasis in teaching spelling …