Berntsen, Maxine
(2009)
In the classroom: teaching early literacy in Indian languages.
Learning Curve (13).
pp. 38-40.
Abstract
When a child enters school at the age of
five or six, she already has a basic grasp of
her first language. She has a vocabulary of
at least 4,000 words, and a mastery of
basic grammar. This means she can interact with
others and carry on a conversation. Moreover, she has
in her head a model of the world that organizes and
structures the life experience that she has had up to
this point.
Once she goes to school, her major task for the first
three years is to become literate, that is, to learn to
read and write what she already knows on an oral basis.
In the process of becoming literate, the child also takes
some of the first steps in developing a reflective
awareness of what she has hitherto known only on an
unconscious level.
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