THE WRITING AND READING SYSTEM OF ARABIC IS PRESENTED IN A TEXT DEVELOPED ON THE BASIS OF LINGUISTIC THEORY AND THE PEDAGOGY OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES. ARABIC WRITING IS RELATED TO ARABIC SOUNDS IN GRADED STEPS. THE ARABIC SOUNDS REPRESENT BOTH MODERN LITERARY ARABIC AND COLLOGUIAL ARABIC, IN THIS CASE THE CAIRENE ARABIC OF EDUCATED EGYPTIANS…

A computerized word count is presented of 11 elementary Modern Literary Arabic textbooks used in the United States. The word count was started in 1967 to provide a practical vocabulary base for a fully-programmed self-instructional course on the phonology and script of Modern Literary Arabic. The first part of the count is a cumulative list…

In this paper, a brief history of the Navajo written language between 1819 and the present is presented. The paper describes the progress of Navajo as a written language. The history was used as background material for a meeting organized by the Sanostee-Toadlena Navajo Bilingual Education Project. The meeting's purpose was to survey the present…

Concludes that graffiti are based on existential chaos and freedom and that they question virtue and honor and love. (DD)

Notes several factors which affect the readability of a printed message and contends that current typographical devices and styles are contrary to the fundamentals of eye physiology and detrimental to established reading habits. Available from: The Journal of Biocommunication, D. Raney, 3215 Haddon Road, Durham, NC 27705. (MH)

The relationships between literacy, intellect, and university disciplines are explored through examples attempting to distinguish intellect from intelligence and the high-grade literacy of university disciplines from its commonplace counterpart. (MT)

This article explores issues to be addressed in testing the validity of proposed correlations between the rise of a certain class of words and the development of literacy. Possible correlations point not to writing but to the language of law courts, feudal practices, and rhetorical debate in the Middle Ages. (Author/MT)

Questioning the emphasis on the promotion of literacy among Third World nations, the authors discuss the impact of literacy on a previously oral culture, the changes that reliance on the written word make in the perception of reality, and the potential loss of collective memory and community spirit. (SK)

Examines ways in which visible language works with or against an accompanying image to produce desired effects on a reader or spectator and investigates the role that fiction and myth play in life, using a book cover and comic strip illustrations as examples. (DF)

Argues for the analyzing, studying, and describing of text pages as configurations of columns and lines and as constallations of alphabets. (FL)

Analyzed university documents for sex-linked and sex-neutral language to measure the impact of regulation on language change. Compared documents from 1969-1972 (N=50) with matching documents from 1978-1979 (N=200). Findings showed newer documents contained significantly fewer sex-linked language items and markedly more sex-neutral items than the…

Junior and senior high deaf students can be encouraged to write by relying on everyday experiences brought to light by such tasks as inventories and lists, scrapbooks, notes and diaries, letter writing, and dialogs. (CL)

Surveys 12 types of syntactic ambiguity in written English. Gives the structural characteristics, their causes, and ways of resolving the ambiguity for each type. (EKN)

Discusses whether to prepare the child for reading instruction, or tailor the reading instruction to the child. (RB)