Literacy

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Literacy

• Unlocking the Mystery
• of
• Language Acquisition

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The Doors of Language Learning

• 1 Listening
• 2 Speaking
• 3 Reading
• 4 Writing

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What is Literacy?

1. Reading
2. Writing

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Areas of Language Study

• Academic English
• Vocabulary Building
• Grammar Structure of Language
• Why study a foreign language?

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Academic English

• The fabric of textbooks and manuals
• Highly organized thought processes
• Specialized vocabularies

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Vocabulary building

• Why do large vocabularies characterize executives
  and possibly outstanding men and women in other
  fields? The final answer seems to be that words
  are the instruments by means of which men and
  women grasp the thoughts of others and with which
  they do much of their own thinking. They are the
  "tools of thought."
• ---Johnson O'Connor

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How you you build vocabulary?

• It takes 40-60 repetitions of a word used in
  context for that word to be added to active
  vocabulary.
• Study of root words and compounds
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Read, Read, Read!
• The Sin of Silent Reading

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Learning Grammar Structure

• Bathed in the sounds of the language.
• Patterns of grammar and spelling
• Irregularities
• Idioms

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Language Learning Games

• Bingo
• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Vocabulary Bees
• Spelling Bees
• Concentration Memory Match
• Chain Drills
• Foldables

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Why Latin? Isnt Latin dead?

• Facts
• 60 of English words have Latin roots
• 90 of words 3 syllables or more
• Romance languages are spoken by 750 million
  people in 57 countries.

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Language and Logic

• Rules
• Order
• Structure

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Resources

• English From the Roots Up Joegil Lundquist
• Vocabulary From Classical Roots Norma Fifer
  Nancy Flowers
• www.memoriapress.com
• (source for Latin, Logic and classical
  education materials)
• Ways Children Learn Geeta Rani Lall
• www.promotelatin.org
• (website of the National Committee for Latin
  and Greek)
• An ESL Teachers Handbook Don Edic for LEI
• A Natural History of Latin Tore Janson