J Ronayne Cowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 739490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Ronayne Cowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Ronayne |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowan |
| SIGNATURE | COWAN J R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Literacy in the Southern Sudan
The adoption of a multilingual educational policy resulting in the acquisition of literacy in different indigenous languages is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon throughout the world. Although comprehensive discussions of the role of literacy in development (Bokamba elsewhere in this volume), the patterns available for literacy acquisition (Ferguson 1971), critical questions (Srivastava elsewhere in this volume), and problems (Bokamba an…
Language Teaching and Literacy
All of the papers in this section have a great deal more to say about the teaching of English to non-native speakers than about literacy, which is discussed primarily within the context of teaching regional languages in multilingual societies. Two contexts are represented in the discussions of English teaching: either English functions as the dominant language in the society, or it is one of the major languages in a multilingual society.
English Teaching in China
For three weeks in 1979, a team of four specialists sponsored by the U.S. International Communication Agency visited China for the purpose of surveying diverse aspects of English teaching there. The authors visited 21 educational institutions in 5 cities. This article describes aspects of language teaching policy in China, English curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methodology used at various levels of English instruction. It also touche…
Spoken Hausa
Reading, Perceptual Strategies and Contrastive Analysis1
Psycholinguistic research in sentence perception supports a model of the reading process in which the reader matches expectancies set up by sampling previous syntactic clues in a text with the structural signals which follow. Such expectancies are language specific, and when they are applied to reading a second language various confusions and comprehension breakdowns result. Examples from three learning situations, Japanese reading English, Persi…
Reading Performance of Bilingual Children According to Type of School and Home Language1
This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three and six. Two types of programs, one an immersion curriculum, and the other a split curriculum, where half the daily instruction was in one language and the remaining half was in the other, were compared with monolingual control schools. The results showed the bilingual children performing not quite as well as either of their monolingual peer g…
Reading, Perceptual Strategies and Contrastive Analysis1
Psycholinguistic research in sentence perception supports a model of the reading process in which the reader matches expectancies set up by sampling previous syntactic clues in a text with the structural signals which follow. Such expectancies are language specific, and when they are applied to reading a second language various confusions and comprehension breakdowns result. Examples from three learning situations, Japanese reading English, Persi…
Reading Performance of Bilingual Children According to Type of School and Home Language1
This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three and six. Two types of programs, one an immersion curriculum, and the other a split curriculum, where half the daily instruction was in one language and the remaining half was in the other, were compared with monolingual control schools. The results showed the bilingual children performing not quite as well as either of their monolingual peer g…
English Teaching in China
For three weeks in 1979, a team of four specialists sponsored by the U.S. International Communication Agency visited China for the purpose of surveying diverse aspects of English teaching there. The authors visited 21 educational institutions in 5 cities. This article describes aspects of language teaching policy in China, English curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methodology used at various levels of English instruction. It also touche…
Reading, Perceptual Strategies and Contrastive Analysis1
Psycholinguistic research in sentence perception supports a model of the reading process in which the reader matches expectancies set up by sampling previous syntactic clues in a text with the structural signals which follow. Such expectancies are language specific, and when they are applied to reading a second language various confusions and comprehension breakdowns result. Examples from three learning situations, Japanese reading English, Persi…
Reading Performance of Bilingual Children According to Type of School and Home Language1
This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three and six. Two types of programs, one an immersion curriculum, and the other a split curriculum, where half the daily instruction was in one language and the remaining half was in the other, were compared with monolingual control schools. The results showed the bilingual children performing not quite as well as either of their monolingual peer g…
Spoken Hausa
English Teaching in China
For three weeks in 1979, a team of four specialists sponsored by the U.S. International Communication Agency visited China for the purpose of surveying diverse aspects of English teaching there. The authors visited 21 educational institutions in 5 cities. This article describes aspects of language teaching policy in China, English curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methodology used at various levels of English instruction. It also touche…
Language Teaching and Literacy
All of the papers in this section have a great deal more to say about the teaching of English to non-native speakers than about literacy, which is discussed primarily within the context of teaching regional languages in multilingual societies. Two contexts are represented in the discussions of English teaching: either English functions as the dominant language in the society, or it is one of the major languages in a multilingual society.
Literacy in the Southern Sudan
The adoption of a multilingual educational policy resulting in the acquisition of literacy in different indigenous languages is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon throughout the world. Although comprehensive discussions of the role of literacy in development (Bokamba elsewhere in this volume), the patterns available for literacy acquisition (Ferguson 1971), critical questions (Srivastava elsewhere in this volume), and problems (Bokamba an…
Linguistics (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Reading (process) (2 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (2 works)