[EDLING:364] ELF Brown Bag Luncheon with Bill Labov

[Tamara Warhol]

Please come to the Educational Linguistic Forum's brown bag luncheon on NOVEMBER
10, 2004 from 1-2:30pm in Rm. 300 of the Graduate School of Education.  Dr. Bill
Labov will discuss:

"What Tutors Should Be Taught"

For the past ten years, large numbers of college students have been
sent into inner city schools to try to help children learn to read.
Experience in training tutors for our Individualized Reading Program,
and in Service Learning classes, points to three kinds of knowledge
base that have to be built for effective tutoring:  (1) enough
understanding of how the English alphabet works to restore children's
confidence in its use in decoding,  (2) enough knowledge of dialect
patterns to distinguish reading errors from differences in
pronunciation and (3) enough familiarity with children's interests and
concerns to reverse their alienation from the reading process. The talk
will draw upon some of the more challenging problems in each area.

I hope to see you all there.

Sincerely,
Tamara Warhol
Director, ELF

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Tamara Warhol
PhD Candidate
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
warholt at dolphin.upenn.edu