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Sunday, October 27, 2002
http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde8/notes_for_editor/aphek.htm CHILDREN, COMPUTERS AND READING SKILLS Prof. Edna APHEK, Jerusalem, ISRAEL While a fierce scholarly debate is going on in Israel between the followers of The Whole Language method and the great believers in the phonetic system as the panacea for all the illnesses connected with reading acquisition, a group of fourth graders tutored another group of first graders, in reading, in an intuitive manner and not using or being aware of any specific method in particular. They did it , though, with a lot of love, individual attention and using the computer. Though the tutors worked with relatively top students, some of whom were already readers, one could draw conclusions from the described case study which could be applied to the advancing of the reading acquisition process in general, and to other learning areas as well....
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