I am curious to know if any xmca reading specialists know of any CURRENT
research in EARLY LITERACY ACQUISISTION? Research that goes beyond received
wisdom? I know the work of Carol Sue Englert and Ann Dyson, but that's about it.
Judy
>And you want cognitive researchers should do this with *learning?* And
>learning language, and in children, whose nervous systems are changing as
>they grow? Those who are actually teaching can probably feel the basic
>disconnectedness from their real tasks of what the connectionists are
>doing. The material basis of learning in a human child is a human brain,
>not a Cray-1, and as long as we try to find reductionist, non-human
>bases for our models, I'm afraid we're going to continue to have trouble.
>
>Any suggestions for new avenues of approach to the issue?
>
>Regards,
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Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
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