THE LINGUISTICS, NEUROLOGY, AND POLITICS OF PHONICS - PART 4 pdf

... 55 THE VARIETY OF METHODOLOGIES Advocates of intensive phonics explicitly argue that letters of the alpha- bet encode the sounds of speech, and that the conversion of print ... This is the essence of the neophonics model of proficient reading, namely, the automatic proc- essing of unnatural and culturally created letters in order to co...

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... comb eet-oh-eet-oh pencil o-e-e-o-e-o matches eet-r-e-e-e-r-e screwdriver eet-r-e-e-e-e-r-e-e-r-e 146 CHAPTER 13 "trustworthy" because it is "valid" and "reliable," ... understanding of the forms and functions of written language is that neophonics, in lack- ing an empirically based theory of letter-sound relationships that...

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... English, of phonics itself, and demonstrates the complexity of the system and the associated benefits and limitations in the theory and practice of reading. Part IV reviews the ... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Linguistics, Neurology, and Politics of Phonics: Silent "E" Speaks Out, by Steven L. Strauss ISBN...

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... the office of Congressman William Goodling of Pennsylva- nia, in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The final report of the TWC (2000) identified a number of ... day-to-day decision-making at the operating level (including authority to hire, fire, promote, reward and transfer), the lack of assurance of life-long employ-...

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... Assistant Secretary of Vocational and Adult Education in the U.S. Department of Education. The Depart- THE VARIETY OF METHODOLOGIES 43 purpose is the construction of meaning. Purposeful ... been addressed by the neophonics school.) But the entire enterprise there- fore stands or falls on the correctness of the alphabetic principle, and on the...

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... totally unaware of the contra- diction between the nature of the phonics system and the purported peda- gogical purpose of the rules, which is to allow a reader to turn the written ... both the itinerary of the tracer and the consumption of oxy- gen occur in far more parts of the brain than just the sites where reading supposedly...

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... their spelling-systems depart from the principle of one-to-one correspon- dence between the sequence of segment-types that occur in a spoken utter- ance and the sequence of graphemes ... pronunciation of the spelled word. For the word how, the nondefault rule applies, thereby blocking the application of the default rule, and producing the...

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... rather to ensure the proper pronunciation of other letters in the word, in particular, the stem vowel. The two-consonant conditioning of the short-vowel rule immediately ex- plains ... with other let- ter-sound patterns, such as the default status of the long-vowel pronuncia- tion, if there is no special silent e effect on the stem vowel letter....

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... Clearinghouse, the new phonics po- lice force. And the media has participated in the vilification of whole- language teachers and educators, trying them in the press, and finding them ... understanding of reading than stimulus-response behaviorism offered to our understanding of language. Indeed, the phonics part of neophonics is just a lef...

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... of the phonics system has the form X—> Y. The term X is the input to the rule, and the term Y is the output of the rule. The arrow signifies that the rule turns the ... Alliance of Business and U.S. De- partment of Labor. Underwood, A. (2001, May 7). Religion and the brain. Newsweek, pp. 5 2-5 7. U.S. Department of...

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