The language production system of literate adults comprises an orthographic system (used during written language production) and a phonological system (used during spoken language production). Recent psycholinguistic research has investigated possible influences of the orthographic system on the phonological system. This research has produced…

This paper critically examines one particular issue against the background of changes in South Africa's higher education system consequent upon the advent of a non-racial democracy--the possibility of implementing multilingual instructional polices that include indigenous African languages in its universities. Currently, a great deal of applied…

The goal of this study was to identify the relationship of at-risk youth workplace appearance to other job performance criteria. Employers (n = 30; each employing from 1 to 17 youths) evaluated 178 at-risk high school youths who completed a paid summer employment experience. Appearance evaluations were significantly correlated with evaluations of…

This article argues that for students of Chinese and Japanese, learning to write Chinese characters ("hanzi/kanji") by hand from memory is an inefficient use of resources. Rather, beginning students should focus on character/word recognition (reading) and electronic writing. Although electronic technologies have diminished the usefulness of…

Bilingual teaching in which ethnic minority spoken and written language are used along with the Han language is China's basic policy for minority education. By means of a survey of the present state of the use of Miao written language in teaching, this article analyzes problems in the policies for minority-language teaching in ethnically mixed…

A daily intensive supplemental reading and writing program was developed to assist students who were: 1. identified with a language disability and 2. identified as at-risk for reading failure in an urban elementary school. The purpose of the program was to help these students understand and develop the connection between oral and written language…

The recent neuroimaging literature gives conflicting evidence about whether the left fusiform gyrus (FG) might recognize words as unitary visual objects. The sensitivity of the left FG to word frequency might provide a neural basis for the orthographic input lexicon theorized by reading models [Patterson, K., Marshall, J. C., & Coltheart, M.…

Journal editorials allow readers to select the most deserving contributions in the literature and adopt approaches or procedures endorsed by an authority in the field; they act as gatekeepers to the community of practice and at the same time allow editors to connect directly with their readership. Following a number of studies on the structure and…

The origins of written language and the study of the alphabet's evolution from pictographic icon or glyph to phonetic, syllabic code are fundamental to the study of writing. Electronically-generated typographies have reawakened interest in letterforms, alphabets, typefaces, and the physical arrangement of words on the page. Fonts, a word that…

Error Monitoring, a learning strategy designed to enable a student to detect and correct errors in written products, was taught to nine learning disabled (LD) adolescents. The instructional procedure involved an 11 step process including such procedures as describing the steps of the strategy, modeling the strategy, and student practice to…

THIS "EXERCISE BOOK" CONTAINS VOCABULARY DRILLS AND QUESTIONS BASED ON THE TWENTY LECTURES OF THE READER VOLUME. FOR EACH LECTURE UNIT THERE ARE TWO VOCABULARY DRILLS AND A LIST OF 20 QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED. THE FIRST VOCABULARY DRILL IS COORDINATED WITH THE VOCABULARY LISTS OF THE LECTURE BOOK, AND CONSISTS OF THE NEW VOCABULARY ITEMS USED IN…

THE PASHTO WRITING SYSTEM IS BRIEFLY DESCRIBED HERE FOR SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH. THE PRINCIPAL LETTERS AND THEIR MODIFIED FORMS ARE PRESENTED AND THE PRINCIPLES OF JUNCTURE AND WORD DIVISION ARE TREATED. THE USE OF EACH SYMBOL IS ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES IN PASHTO SCRIPT WITH PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS AND ENGLISH GLOSSES. THE AUTHOR IDENTIFIES THOSE…

Experiments within the microgenetic paradigm provide an assessment of the role of stimulus structure and, inferentially, of cognitive structure on perception. Two experiments investigating the effect of redundancy (structure) in written language on visual perception are reported. Seven-letter arrays differing in percentage of redundancy were…

The ability to understand English words in print was tested in 376 normal and hearing impaired students (ages 10-14 years). (Author/DLS)

Latin terms and phrases are frequently used in genealogical writing; Latin comprises 45.9 percent of the entries. The types of Latin terms encountered and their frequencies are listed. (SW)