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Approaches To Reading
Reading
Bloomfield Approach
Dr. Leonard Bloomfield
Born on April 1, 1887
Died at the age of 62
Led the development of structural linguistics
in United States
Author of “Let’s Read” book
Clarence Barnhart
Born: 1900
Died: 1993
An American lexicographer
Co-author of Bloomfield in the book “Let’s
Read”
Bloomsfield’s View
Bloomfield advocated that children’s should
be acquainted with the letters of the alphabet
at the very start.
2 Faults in Phonic Methods:
1. The inventors of the phonic methods confuse writing with speech.
2. Phonic methods isolate the speech sounds.
Bloomfield’s Criticisms
Method
~most serious drawback in the teaching of reading
Regular spellings should be presented in the early
stages before teaching words with semi-
irregular patters such as cough, bough, etc.
John Downing
Conducted experiments using I.T.A. in London
with pupils in the beginning sstage of reading
Initial Teaching Alphabet
A version of Augmented Roman Alphabet
A version of 44 characters
Uses lower case letters only
In I.T.A. it was believed that this is more beneficial
compare to the traditional alphabet because children do
more writing and have a heavier vocabulary load