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Muroi, Reiko – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Walter Ong points out that no one can write naturally, because writing is a completely artificial technique we need to acquire through education. The technology of literacy as writing letters begets a dividing line between "literates" and "illiterates," since literacy cannot be acquired otherwise. When we review the early…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Literacy, Literacy Education, Illiteracy
Fletcher-Flinn, Claire M.; Thompson, G. Brian; Yamada, Megumi; Naka, Makiko – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
In research on the acquisition of reading, there have been some cross-orthographic comparisons between alphabetic scripts and the hiragana syllabic script. One of the theoretical motives for these comparisons is the hypothesis that phonological awareness is related to the size of the phonological unit mapped by the orthography, with phoneme…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, Cognitive Development, Children

Brown, R. A. – Visible Language, 1991
Examines societies in which varieties and degrees of literacy are possible or ordinary, such as Japan and Korea. Finds that these societies have separate but functionally interrelated writing systems, used for communicatively disparate purposes, differential mastery of which, consequently, has social and economic repercussions. Finds that…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education