Scripts and Literacy: Reading and Learning to Read Alphabets, Syllabaries and CharactersI. Taylor, D.R. Olson Literacy is a concern of all nations of the world, whether they be classified as developed or undeveloped. A person must be able to read and write in order to function adequately in society, and reading and writing require a script. But what kinds of scripts are in use today, and how do they influence the acquisition, use and spread of literacy? Scripts and Literacy is the first book to systematically explore how the nature of a script affects how it is read and how one learns to read and write it. It reveals the similarities underlying the world's scripts and the features that distinguish how they are read. Scholars from different parts of the world describe several different scripts, e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian Amerindian -- and how they are learned. Research data and theories are presented. This book should be of primary interest to educators and researchers in reading and writing around the world. |
Contents
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Optimal Orthographies | 31 |
A Critique | 44 |
The Athapaskan Languages of | 77 |
A Dravidian Language | 95 |
GraphemePhoneme Regularity | 110 |
Getting at the Sound and Meaning of Logographic | 131 |
Asymmetries between Reading and Writing for Japanese | 215 |
Implications from the Study | 231 |
Writing Systems and Acquisition of Reading in American | 247 |
Brahmi Scripts Orthographic Units and Reading Acquisition | 265 |
Orthographic and Cognitive Processing in Learning to Read | 276 |
Cognitive Consequences of L1 and L2 Orthographies | 311 |
Evidence from | 327 |
Syllabic Literacy and Cognitive Performance among the Cree | 341 |
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