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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
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Downing, John – Visible Language, 1973
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Literacy, Reading Development
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Benson, Philippa Jane – Visible Language, 1991
Reviews studies on cross-orthographic Stroop interference tests. Critiques one of the first cross-orthographic Stroop studies to describe how such studies have been used to explore cognitive mechanisms involved in reading. Reviews conceptual and methodological flaws in the research. (PRA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research