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Peer reviewedPrist, Wayne F. – Catholic Library World, 1982
This essay focuses on the process of learning, discussing television viewing and written language in terms of discursive (words) and nondiscursive (art forms) symbolism. Libraries' use of these symbolic forms is also discussed. (EJS)
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Symbolic Learning, Television Viewing, Visual Learning
Peer reviewedTzeng, Ovid J. L.; Singer, Harry – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Analyzes a report by D.D. Steinberg and J. Yamada that investigated which of the different types of scripts used in Japanese writing was the easiest to learn to read. (MKM)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedSteinberg, Danny D.; Yamada, Jun – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Offers a rebuttal to Tzeng and Singer's criticism of the authors' study of the ease of learning to read the different Japanese scripts. States that the symbols and words were taught in the ordinary situation in which they are learned. (MKM)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Education, Elementary Education
