Backseat Linguist
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The Backseat Linguist comments on current research in language acquisition and language education. Aka Jeff McQuillan. Author: The Literacy Crisis (1998)
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http://www.backseatlinguist.com 25-11-2011 04:23:48
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The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/07/the… via Paul Thomas
Update 2: .Jeffrey Bowers clarifies that what he advocates for beginning reading is not even another form of phonics. My apologies—I stand corrected. (Note this is still *not* the "main point" of Bowers (2020) by any stretch of the imagination, as Shanahan claimed.)
The Phonics Gambit: The Zombie Reading Policy that Fails but Won't Die radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/07/the… via Paul Thomas
.Idrees Kahloon reports that we are sliding back to the level of literacy when he himself was in 8th grade. Even back to that well-known "Age of Illiteracy" also known as the 1970s. The horror.
Backseat Linguist Idrees Kahloon Anything like the 1960s illiterates? radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/15/rea…