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...well-respected Kazakh. Once late at night, we were squatting in a circle in a yurt with the rest of the men. It was a place where there were no roads, just people moving in their yearly cycle with their camels and horses. Then the official started reciting the oral history of the Kazakhs," he says...
...oral vaccine aimed at cutting down salmonella infections from eggs and poultry could be available for farmers by early next year...
...every letter in a word or every word in a text. If they did and if they tried to translate what they saw into sounds, reading would be much too cumbersome. Somehow, though, children learned to read. To explain this, Smith adapted theories about the acquisition of oral language. In the mid-'60s the linguist Noam Chomsky had determined that a child's brain is actually wired with the rules of all spoken languages. Immersed in the world of speech, the child learns by experience which rules apply to the language of his community. Smith concluded that written language...
...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 were as natural as speaking, wouldn't all cultures have written language, and would so many people in literate cultures have trouble reading...
...story focuses on two half-brothers growing up in the United States, one of whom is African and the other African-American. Ashong says he chose a musical because during his Fall 1995 semester in Ghana, he realized how fundamental oral literature and music were to African identity...