The following review is an excerpt from: “Literacy and the language awareness hypothesis,” published in Writing Systems Research, v.11, n.2, pp. 176–187 With the growing emphasis on cross-language and cross-writing system research, we have begun to converge upon principles of literacy and literacy learning that are foundational, principles that should…

The following discussion of literary language in popular culture is an excerpt from the paper: “Verbal art across language and culture: Poetry as music” that appeared in Neohelicon, v. 48, n. 2, pp. 539–552 (2021). Among the expressions of verbal art in popular culture today, we find the clearest example…

Review of Language in Development: A Crosslinguistic Perspective (2021) by Suzanne Flynn and Gita Martohardjono (eds.) MIT Press. For educators working in the field of second language learning, staying current with the basic research in bilingualism and crosslinguistic interaction will help us to better understand the progress of learners. This…

Silvia-Maria Chireac, Norbert Francis & John McClure The following report is an abbreviated version of “Awareness of form and pattern in literacy assessment: Classroom applications for first and second language,” published in The Reading Matrix, v. 19, n. 1, pp. 20–34 (2019). How educators understand literacy learning determines the methods…

Review of Story, Listening and Experience in Early Childhood by Donna Schatt & Patrick Ryan Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 The relationship between language and literacy is a research problem of many years of progress in cognitive science, especially in regard to school (or academic-related) literacy. This is only one of the…

The discussion of pressing social problems that we confront today is in crisis. Deepening this crisis is the fact that the principles that have guided the progressive movement over the years are today in disarray. In large part, in many quarters, they are in shambles. Two recent books, Cynical Theories…