Reexamines what learning the alphabet means from the child's perspective. Draws from several case studies and other naturalistic examinations of young children as they learn to read and write to describe what young children learn about the alphabet. (MG)

This study examined temporal processing in relation to Chinese reading acquisition and impairment. The performances of 26 Chinese primary school children with developmental dyslexia on tasks of visual and auditory temporal order judgement, rapid naming, visual-orthographic knowledge, morphological, and phonological awareness were compared with…

Few studies investigating the impacts of teacher characteristics and beliefs about the importance of early skill learning have included measures of children's learning outcomes. This study investigated how teachers' educational attainment, experience, and beliefs impact the development of letter identification and number concepts (enumeration,…

The Choctaw orthography described here is designed to (1) be as accurate a representation of the spoken language as possible, (2) provide a more or less uniform spelling for each morpheme without sacrificing the first condition, and (3) be acceptable to the speaker of Choctaw and easy for him to learn. It is essentially phonemic, with deviations…

In this paper three experimental techniques are described for studying ambiguous characters and for investigating the relationship between physical attributes and functional attributes. (Author)

Translation of proper place and personal names is very difficult, especially when they occur within texts. It is often necessary to consider native pronunciation and the rules of transcription and transliteration in both languages. Examples from the literature illustrate the need for more attention to this problem. (MSE)

The history of the alphabet is briefly reviewed to provide background on the controversy about beginning handwriting instruction and the relative difficulty of major instructional methods (Roman capitals, ball-stick manuscript, and chancery cursive). The author suggests that a simplified version of chancery cursive can be used for beginners. (CL)

A how-to-do-it article describing how professional quality lettering can be made using simple photography techniques. (HB)

A chronological bibliography of 14 citations dealing with the problem of script. (MM)

Lecture presented in September 1971 at the International Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences in Washington, D.C. (VM)

Reviews theree stages through which communication passes and the media which transmit words in each stage while affecting the psychological structures in the culture. Emphasizes that each successive stage does not wip out preceding ones, but rather causes them to operate in new ways. (MB)

The author feels it is psychologically beneficial to permit ghetto children to spell phonetically before teaching them to use standard spellings. (AF)

This article suggests 11 projects for prekindergarten and kindergarten children (1) to teach letter recognition; (2) to develop eye-hand coordination; and (3) to help children understand weather; and (4) to provide art and drama activities on Thanksgiving themes. (PP)

A count of the characters in two combined groups of local and United Press International news stories suggests that the frequency ranking of the letters used most in typesetting is ETAOIN RSHLDCU, rather than the traditional ETAOIN SRHLDCU or the order reported by I. E. Fang in 1966. (GT)

This third in a series of articles on book design discusses and illustrates elements found within the body of the work: (1) illuminated letters, which serve as decoration, reflect cultural elements, enhance the meaning of text and illustrations, or establish motif, setting, or theme; and (2) borders, which serve as frames for text and…