[EDLING:372] Brownbag with Bill Labov

[Tamara Warhol]

The Educational Linguistics Forum (ELF)
Presents a
Brownbag Discussion

Entitled
"What Tutors Should be Taught"
by
William Labov, PhD
Professor of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania

When: 	Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 1-2:30pm
Where: 	The Graduate School of Education, Rm. 007

Abstract: 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.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH.

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