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15 Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now David R. Olson I read myself in quotation marks. —Todorov Few events in the evolution of m ...
created and consulted documents is vital, of course, but just how persons read, cited, and interpreted documents and how those i ...
processes of those so affected. The sponsors of that hypothesis produced a series of influential papers and books that explored ...
potential significance of learning to read and write, they have provided overwhelming evidence to show that children’s thinking ...
those sponsored by UNESCO in the 1950s failed to produce the enduring effects that had been expected. Literacy, it seems, is not ...
CRITICIZING THE CRITICS In his critique of Goody and Watt (1968), Halverson (1992) claimed that ‘‘the ‘cognitive’ claims of the ...
word awareness. In fact, even the great Samuel Johnson, the maker of the first English dictionary, lacked an adequate notion of ...
required them to break words into the phonological constituents repre- sented by letters of the alphabet. A simple example would ...
‘‘A cat,’’ a child may make a scribble; if asked to write ‘‘Two cats,’’ they may make two squiggles, and so on. But if asked to ...
1997, 24), and most writers have adopted the later terminology, thereby distinguishing what is called ‘‘the illocutionary force’ ...
339). Quoted speech, too, is closed, not open to negotiation and revision; it is fixed, it is not addressed to us, it is overhea ...
‘‘Yes, today,’’ she said. ‘‘I lunched with him. We walked in the Park.’’ She stopped. They had walked in the Park. A thrush had ...
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