| Writing is Language is Learning |
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| Each day of our lives, language grows as our brains sort out the details of new and repeated experiences. |
| Beginning the day we are born, language grows out of our experience and the thinking we do about that experience. |
| We use language to define and interpret our experience. |
| Oral and written language work together iin the context of our experience, thoughts, and interaction with others to create meaning. |
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| We also use language to confirm or expand our experience through interaction with others. |
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| more experience = more language = more learning |
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| Then one day, in his own good time, Leo bloomed!
from Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus Jose Arego, illustrator |
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| Formative Research I've done about language processes and learning is synthesized in my newsletter for parents about Reading and Language. See references page of that publication. |
| Seminal Research and Theory that influence my conception of language and learning is rooted the work of |
| Piaget, Vygotsky, Bloom, Bruner on learning....................see Routman(2000), Chapter 2 |
| Holdaway, Cambourne, Goodman on language..................see Carroll (1993), Chapter 10 |
| Brain Research on learning & language......................................see Sousa (2005) |
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