A little-known aspect of Leonard Bloomfield's linguistics
The story ofLet’s Read(1961)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3954597 |
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| Authors | Cynthia A Barnhart (Burbank, California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 433-476 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historiographia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/hl.40.3.05bar |
| OpenAlex | W2034099673 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Leonard Bloomfield's (1887-1949) contribution to the literature and theory of teaching reading is not widely known. This paper recounts the history of that contribution, published asLet's Read: A linguistic approachin 1961, well after his death. Clarence L. Barnhart (1900-1993), the lexicographer, had encouraged Bloomfield to write a complete, finished manuscript of his phonemic approach to teaching reading and expended considerable time searching for a publisher. Bloomfield and Barnhart also sought classroom experimentation of Bloomfield's materials before publication, which by and large verified his ideas, as did later experiments. Critical reception ofLet's Read, which rejected familiar reading pedagogy, was not warmly welcoming, especially among reading professionals, while linguists like the Romanist Yakov Malkiel (1914-1998) and the structuralist Henry Lee Smith (1913-1972) offered more positive assessments
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Mathematics education · Reading (process · Classics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
| Highly cited | No |
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