Volume 18, Number 2 (April 1992)

Originally published as:   Notes on Literacy. Volume 18, Number 2 (April 1992). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. © 1992 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Is linguistics still necessary? Or is literacy enough? ¹, by Sarah C. Gudschinsky

Holding your reading theories lightly ^*, by Barry Borneman

1. Introduction

2. The people and the program

3. Step 1: Recognize one's own theory of learning

4. Step 2: Recognize the learner's expectations and motivation

5. Step 3: Allow the learner's expectations and desires to determine reading content

6. Step 4: Identify cultural learning styles and their relationship to the complex task of learning to read

7. Step 5: The teaching of reading

8. Results and recommendations

Back Matter

References

A sociohistorical philosophy of education, by Joost Pikkert

1. The need for new approaches

2. Dynamic experience

3. World view

4. Historic context

5. The interaction of experience, world view, and history

Back Matter

References

With only six letters ¹, by David J. Weber

Classification of words by syntactic category

Adjectives and participles

Articles

Conjunctions

Substantives

Prepositions

Demonstrative pronouns and adjectives

Verbs:

Proper names

Adverbs

Fixed expressions

Phrases

Noun phrases (NP)

Prepositional phrases

Verb phrases

Sentences

Different word orders

Different types of sentences

Small texts

Conclusion

Back Matter

References