A Brief History of Comprehension
by Doug Noon
http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2005/11/27/a-brief-history-of-comprehension/
The history of literacy theory became important for me when I chose to become a teacher, although I didn¡¯t know that until I went back to the university after teaching for 20 years. I¡¯m going to outline two not-quite parallel histories in order to explain why this weblog was initiated, and maybe help anyone who reads this to better understand their own literacy history.

Archaic thinking
Until the late 1950¡¯s and early 60¡¯s, around the time that I entered school, reading was regarded as merely a perceptual process. Comprehension was assumed to occur once the reader decoded the written symbols and reproduced them as spoken language. According to this view, the relatively simple job of the teacher was to teach children to discriminate among different letters and reproduce their sounds. To accomplish this, phonics and whole-word recognition......

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Title: Psycholingustics
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