Literacy education: need we start early?

Krashen, Stephen (2014) Literacy education: need we start early? Language and Language Teaching, 3 (2). pp. 1-7. ISSN 2277-307X

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Abstract

Most people are convinced that children will have a powerful head start in reading if they are introduced to sounds and letters well before they start school. The conclusions of this paper are these: For the development of English literacy, early explicit teaching fails, but later, absorption in interesting and comprehensible reading works very well.

Item Type:	Articles in APF Magazines
Authors:	Krashen, Stephen
Document Language:	Language English
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Literacy, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension
Subjects:	Language
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > University Publications > Language and Language Teaching
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/1539
Publisher URL:	http://apfstatic.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-...

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