Month: January 2017

Zhou Youguang, inventor of Pinyin
BBC news · npr · Pinyin · Zhou Youguang

Zhou Youguang, inventor of Pinyin

John

The BBC has reported that Zhou Youguang, the man who brought literacy to millions in China after the communist victory in 1949, died on Saturday 14thJanuary, a day after celebrating his 111th birthday. After working as a Wall Street banker, Zhou decided, in 1949, to return to China to help with rebuilding the country. In… Continue reading Zhou Youguang, inventor of Pinyin

Threshold concepts and the idea of sound to print
Daisy Christodoulou · Diane McGuinness · Glynis Cousins · K Anders Ericsson · linguistic phonics · Mark Seidenberg · Michael J. Prietula · Paul J Feltovich

Threshold concepts and the idea of sound to print

John

 I’ve been thinking quite a bit recently about Glynis Cousin’s short introduction to ‘threshold concepts’, an idea developed by Erik Meyer and Ray Land and, although I have reservations about some of the things she argues, I find her central theme quite helpful. She describes a threshold concept as one that is ‘central to the mastery of… Continue reading Threshold concepts and the idea of sound to print