The Linguistics, Neurology, and Politics of Phonics: Silent "E" Speaks Out This book explores the driving forces behind the current government-sponsored resurrection of phonics, and the arguments used to justify it. It examines the roles played by three key actors--corporate America, politicians, and state-supported reading researchers--in the formulation of what Strauss terms the neophonics political program. Essential for researchers, students, and teachers of literacy and reading, and for anyone seeking to understand what is happening in U.S. public schools today, Linguistics, Neurology, and the Politics of Phonics: Silent "E" Speaks Out: analyzes the political nature of the alleged literacy crisis in the United States, through an investigation of the political and corporate motives behind the renewed focus on phonics, and media complicity in promoting the neophonics political program as the solution to the so-called crisis; examines the scientific claims of neophonics, including methodology, linguistics, and neuroscience, and exposes the flaws in its reasoning and the weakness of its arguments; addresses the scientific, empirical investigation of letter-sound relationships in English (of phonics itself), and demonstrates the complexity of the system and its associated benefits and limitations in the theory and practice of reading; proposes actions to help make a return to politically undistorted science and to democratic classrooms a reality; and introduces, in a postscript, a formal analysis of the letter-sound system, using empirically based rules to convert one finite set of elements, the alphabet, into another, the phonemes of the spoken language.
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This collection of papers introduces a new dimension in the understanding of reading by focussing on the relation between spoken and written language processing. It introduces new perspectives on speech and reading by highlighting aspects of the two that have received little attention in the past. The comparative approach to speech and reading concerns new approaches to the development of speech and reading, the existence of unconventional input modalities like Braille reading and lipreading, the study of populations with specific disorders in the abilities implicated in normal speaking and reading.
With the dual focus of equipping students to interact with academic texts and helping them acquire vital academic vocabulary, Inside Reading gives students the tools they need to succeed in their academic courses. Inside Reading approaches the goal of academic readiness from several directions.Students can take their learning further with the electronic workbook included in their student book. It offers a variety of vocabulary exercises designed to deepen knowledge of and ability to use the targeted AWL words appropriately. Instructor's Pack includes teaching notes facilitate classroom instruction, assessment with test-generating software which allows you to customizes tests and quizzes to meet the precise needs of your students, answer Key.
This volume offers concrete answers to the question of how we can use imagery to enrich the teaching of reading and writing. The chapters are organized according to two guiding principles. First, each addresses specific aspects of the inextricable integration of imagery and language in the teaching of reading and writing. Imagery is not privileged over language; the fusion of the two is emphasized. Second, each focuses on a particular kind of imagery--mental, graphic, or verbal--describing teaching/learning strategies based on the deployment of that kind of imagery in the classroom.
