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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>In my opinion, you are correct. Text
centered thinking, in the literate world, has replaced orality, but, with
the erroneous assumption, insidiously imbedded in praxis, that the text
superseded orality, and, that the text is superior to orality. An anthropologist
friend of mine often suggested the problem of the modern world, in addition to
being in a spiritual crisis, is in a technological crisis in that our
primitive(preliterate) mentality has not kept pace with our modern
technology.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>In his book, Ong, Walter J. Orality and
Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York: Methune & Co. Ltd.
1982 addresses much of this thinking.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Some very interesting posts...thank you
all for your thoughts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>-------<BR>wahjeh<BR>rolland
nadjiwon</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 24, 2004 9:22
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Dual Language Instruction: A
Handbook for Enriched Education</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Hello, ILAT List members,
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>I looked up the book Rosalyn
suggested and it got me to thinking: Since language is dynamic and visual and
sound-based, why, why, why are all the "how-to" books based on text in this
time of rich technology? Amazon didn't have the book in the "examine" format,
but I looked at the index, and there is not one single thing about multi-media
for sounds and lexical development, there is no mention, at least in a
heading, about using the computer for sound repetition and learning, nor did
there seem to be an idea about self-directed learning. It seems to be that
bi/multi lingual learning always, always, always requires a teacher. This
seems to be a constraint rather than a benefit. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Is there some kind of bias out
there that says since text is an elite representational system, language
learning can only occur in this difficult context? Even the stuff I have seen
on the web is convoluted and often difficult and slow, bogged down by the
technology. . . rather than a beautiful artistic construction of the
technologies that facilitates rather than impedes apprehension of the
languages. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Sigh. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Mia</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2
PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Below is a good basic book for the
non-academic (with plenty of studies cited) on the educational/cognitive
benefits of teaching in two languages.<BR><BR><B>Dual Language Instruction:
A Handbook for Enriched Education</B><BR>by Nancy Cloud, Fred Genesee &
Else Hamayan<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><B>Rosalyn LaPier</B><BR>Piegan
Institute<BR><A
href="http://www.pieganinstitute.org">www.pieganinstitute.org</A></FONT>
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