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I appreciate this comment, and we can certainly make changes to indicate what aspects are restricted to reading alphabetic languages. Neither myself nor my students will be able to add content about reading other writing systems. There is a small set of research articles on learning reading Chinese for example, but I do not cover this area in class. From my perspective it is hard to have a general article that crosses writing systems, as a result, most aspects of this article are particularly about phonetic systems. I have not removed the global tag because I recognize that this is an issue. My preferred solution would be to make the article "learning to read alphabetic languages" and have separate articles for different writing systems. Given we are new to Wikipedia, my students and I thought this too bold a change for a first outing.
Paula [[User:Marentette|Marentette]] ([[User talk:Marentette|talk]]) 04:16, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
== Acquiring reading naturally ==
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I removed the text in the section below because it seems to give undue weight to a theory of reading which is advanced by a single author. If further citations establish there is more merit to this theory than that, I recommend including it at the end of the "Methods of teaching reading" section. -- [[User:Beland|Beland]] ([[User talk:Beland|talk]]) 07:05, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
===Acquiring reading naturally===
In a recent proposal, it has been claimed that reading can be acquired naturally if print is constantly available at an early age in the same manner as spoken language.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2012/4/acquiring-literacy-naturally |title=Massaro, D. W. (2012). Acquiring Literacy Naturally: Behavioral science and technology could empower preschool children to learn to read naturally without instruction. American Scientist, 100, 324-333.}}</ref> If an appropriate form of written text is made available before formal schooling begins, reading should be learned inductively, emerge naturally, and with no significant negative consequences. This proposal advances knowledge and understanding because it challenges the commonly held belief that written language requires formal instruction and schooling. Its success would change current views of literacy and schooling. Utilizing developments in behavioral science and technology, an interactive system (Technology Assisted Reading Acquisition, TARA) is prpposed to enable young pre-literate children to accurately perceive and learn various properties of written language by simply exposure to the written form.
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