Uncommon Sense: Theoretical Practice in Language EducationMayher traces his own evolution as a teacher/learner by recapturing the processes of reflection and inquiry he went through when confronted by contradictions between the way commonsense teaching and learning were supposed to work and the actual experiences of students in his classrooms. |
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... readers since every new text can at least potentially enrich and extend our competence as readers . The key is the notion of a meaningful and enjoyable transaction with a written text , but as readers mature and develop , the ways ...
... readers since every new text can at least potentially enrich and extend our competence as readers . The key is the notion of a meaningful and enjoyable transaction with a written text , but as readers mature and develop , the ways ...
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... reading " ( of those texts which have traditionally been de- scribed as informational ) , she recognizes that the distinction is , really , one of the reader's stance toward the text , not a property of the text itself . While competent ...
... reading " ( of those texts which have traditionally been de- scribed as informational ) , she recognizes that the distinction is , really , one of the reader's stance toward the text , not a property of the text itself . While competent ...
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... reading process and the engagement and enjoyment of doing so for the reader / writer . Similarly , the importance of teachers and other more expert readers reading aloud to learners at all levels , stressed in Chapter VII , also helps ...
... reading process and the engagement and enjoyment of doing so for the reader / writer . Similarly , the importance of teachers and other more expert readers reading aloud to learners at all levels , stressed in Chapter VII , also helps ...
Contents
The Roots of Common Sense | 13 |
2 | 36 |
Commonsense Learning | 47 |
Copyright | |
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ability achieve acquired activities adults aspects belief capacity Chomsky classroom code theory common commonsense schools commonsense view competence concepts context creative crucial culture curriculum decoding discussion Donald Schön effect emphasis English teaching example experience explore fact further grade grammar guage high school human ideas important instruction interac interpretation involved Jerome Bruner kind knowledge language acquisition Language Acquisition Device language education language system learners learning log linguistic listening literacy literature look maze runner meaning meaningful mental mental models metaphor monsense nature neoprogressive Noam Chomsky particular peers powerful practice prescriptive grammar problem pupils questions readers reading and writing recognize reflection relevance relevance theory response role seems sense sequence shared skills stories students learn talk taught tests things thought tion tive transaction trying uncommonsense approach uncommonsense teacher uncommonsense theory unconscious understand Vivian Paley vocabulary words