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[ProfessionalDevelopment 2530] Re: Teaching adults with phonicsAndrea Wilder andreawilder at comcast.netFri Sep 19 23:07:40 EDT 2008
Remember Dolch? His reading lists for children were based on the actual words children actually spoke and heard. Andrea On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Steve Kaufmann wrote: > Tom, > > You wrote: > > "Listening has been identified as a critical work-related skill but > it has > been almost totally ignored in national assessments of adult > literacy. 2008 > is the 100th anniversary of E. B. Huey's 1908 classic book, "The > Psychology > and Pedagogy of Reading" in which he stated that, "The child comes > to his > first reader with his habits of spoken language fairly well formed, > and > these habits grow more deeply set with every year. His meanings > inhere in > this spoken language and belong but secondarily to the printed > symbols...." > > It seems incredible that such an obvious truth, and one that was > described 100 years ago, has been neglected in the fight to improve > literacy. The less well I read a language, the more I vocalize when > reading. Listening, or hearing, or auding as you put it, is the > foundation for learning to read, whether for our first language, or > for subsequent languages. The power of the MP3 player makes auding > easier to do than ever. > > Here in Canada there is much public posturing about fighting > literacy. There are spelling bees, and book reading promotions. > Much money is raised by well intentioned people. The results are > disappointing. > > I believe that far more could be achieved if there were one website > with a vast collection of sound files and transcripts, of all > kinds. These should consists of ordinary conversations between > people of different ages and interests,radio programs, songs, > articles on different subjects, including civics, and even > university courses. The download of the sound files and text files > should be free and their distribution unrestricted. The site should > be the subject of a massive promotion campaign. Friendships and > mentoring relationships could be built up via such a site. > > I often hear that the adult ESL learner or person with low literacy > cannot afford a computer or MP3 player. I do not believe this is a > real obstacle. There are libraries, schools, and other places to > access computers. An MP3 player is not expensive. It is simply a > matter of getting people to realize that they need to listen in > order to read, and after listening they need to read. > > If you have a seminar near Vancouver BC please let me know. I would > love to attend. > > Steve > > > > -- > Steve Kaufmann > www.lingq.com > 1-604-922-8514 > ---------------------------------------------------- > National Institute for Literacy > Adult Literacy Professional Development mailing list > professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov > > To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings, please go to > http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/professionaldevelopment > > Professional Development section of the Adult Literacy Education Wiki > http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/ > Adult_Literacy_Professional_Development -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/professionaldevelopment/attachments/20080919/42442afe/attachment.html
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