...
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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...
...
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
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"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...
... 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...
... 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-...
... 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...
... 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...
...
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...
... 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....
... 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...
... 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...