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| Downing, John | 7 |
| Esling, John | 1 |
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Peer reviewedDowning, John – Language Arts, 1976
Describes the difficulties children face in learning the special language used to talk about reading and its relation to speech. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Development, Reading Processes
Peer reviewedDowning, John – Reading Teacher, 1975
Contains a historical view of decoding and discusses what it means for teachers of phonics. (RB)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Educational History, Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach
Download full textDowning, John – 1975
Cognitive confusion is the common state of young persons in regard to concepts of units of writing. In the past 10 years, research has accumulated to show that all children pass through the important stage of initial cognitive confusion in learning to read. Children often confuse "writing" with "drawing,""letter" with "number," and so on.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Language Experience Approach, Reading
Downing, John – Reading Soc Setting, 1967
Lecture given before the Annual Conference and Course on Reading (23d, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 10-21, 1967).
Descriptors: Copyrights, Discovery Learning, History, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Downing, John – Elementary English, 1975
Open-space school architecture has no necessary connection with an open-education philosophy. (JH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedDowning, John – Reading Teacher, 1972
Suggests ways in which a teacher can change the learning task to suit the student's level of development. References. (VJ)
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Language Experience Approach, Language Learning Levels
Peer reviewedEsling, John; Downing, John – TESL Canada Journal, 1986
Examination of cognitive prerequisites for the acquisition of reading skills identified two kinds of conceptual representations of language activities--functional and technical concepts. English-as-a-second-language students can transfer these concepts to second-language literacy, but attention must be given to orthographic coding principles of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Language Experience Approach, Orthographic Symbols
