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...height here the very week that Jiang Zemin is to visit Boston. Saturday's speech in Sanders Theatre by the Chinese president, with the massive protests and media invasion sure to accompany it, will be the biggest event at Harvard since the 1995 Dunster murder-suicide. In the context of Jiang's U.S. visit as a whole, it could also make its way into the history books...
...added that culture is "not situated in abstract theoretical context but located in historical experience...
...pedagogy." Goodman and Frank Smith, a cognitive psychologist, developed the theories behind whole language in the late 1960s. Goodman asked adults and children to read aloud, then studied the ways in which what they said varied from the text. From this work, he concluded that readers rely on context to guess an upcoming word rather than using the word's spelling. If this ability to guess were improved, and poring over individual letters discouraged, said Goodman, then reading would be more fluent...
...science about reading and writing and how they develop." Apparently, though, it is the whole-language advocates who reject what modern science has to say about reading--which is that readers do attend to every letter, that phonics taught in isolation is effective and that poor readers rely on context, while good readers do not. Thus by encouraging guessing, a whole-language teacher is reinforcing a bad habit. As for the idea that written language is acquired as naturally as oral language, that has been dismissed on empirical grounds, as well as by common sense. As Lyon says, "If reading...
Champagne's previously published book, The Politics of Survivorship, discussed incest in the context of feminist and queer theories and psychoanalysis, her three main fields of study...