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Instructional Implications of Functional and Critical Reading
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Giordano, Gerard – Reading Improvement, 1976
Argues that critical reading is educationally and logically distinct from functional reading and a disregard for this distinction and for the sequential primacy of functional reading decreases the efficiency of reading instruction. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Reading
Neurological Research on Language and the Implications for Teaching Bilingual Children to Read. Occasional Papers on Linguistics, No. 1.
Giordano, Gerard – 1977
Neurological data indicate that the universal aptitude for functional language is biologically based, species specific, and developmental. The universality of functional oral speech is indisputable. Everyone, however, does not exhibit similar expertise in processing oral and visual language. Many people can speak two languages functionally but…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes