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Peer reviewedPitman, James – Educational Horizons, 1972
This article, from Education for Teaching''--Autumn 1970, has been published in London as Publications Number 12 of The i.t.a. Foundation. (Editor)
Descriptors: College Role, Educational Change, Failure, Family Influence
Pitman, James – Literacy Discussion, 1972
Article discusses the remedial learning of reading for the teaching of the English language to those who come to school with deficient verbal skills, and for others who simply want to enjoy a satisfactory life. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Functional Reading, Illiteracy, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Download full textPitman, James – 1970
In this paper the author examines the more commonly accepted causes of failure in reading and argues that all of them are related to and explained by two major problems: the lack of proficiency in the spoken language and traditional orthography, the medium in which reading is most commonly taught. Each of the factors generally accepted as…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intelligence Quotient, Language Ability, Orthographic Symbols
