<div dir="ltr">David and Dr. Fang,<div><br></div><div>This is a brilliant survey. I am really glad there are people looking at these sorts of details regarding language instruction.</div><div><br></div><div>I have two comments about the content of the survey:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Is there a google doc or some such documentation where the terms in question #14 are defined. Perhaps a single paragraph for each "method" to highlight the salient points of the methodology and perhaps a citation of materials further explaining the method?</div><div>2. Is it within the scope of your investigation to look at methodologies of teaching reading in the language? or is that too specific at this time? I see the teaching of reading mentioned as a skill in question #13, but in question #14 I don't see anything specific which would target theoretical framework kinds of issues, i.e. (top-down / Bottom-up methodologies). In my particular case am interested to know what sort of methodologies are used for the teaching of reading to both new readers (those who have never previous learned to read, and are learning a lesser taught language), and to established readers (for instance learning to read a heritage language). I have looked in the literature (specifically relating to how tone marking is taught) for examples of how reading is taught (including how the chalk or white board is used), but I have not found anything worth mentioning or particularly illuminating.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>- Hugh Paterson</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 6:15 AM, David Nathan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dn2@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">dn2@soas.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues<div><br></div><div>Many thanks to those who tried to fill in the survey early and especially to Rob Amery who let me know of a couple of glitches (one caused by oddness of SurveyGizmo, one by my carelessness). It should be all good to go now.</div><div><br></div><div>best wishes</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class=""><div dir="ltr">-------------<br>David Nathan</div><div dir="ltr">Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, NT, Australia</div></span><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Digital Publishing Consultant </span><a href="http://www.dnathan.com" target="_blank">www.dnathan.com</a><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Ethno-ornithology World Archive, University of Oxford</span><br></div><div>-------------</div></div></div></div></div>
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