Teaching New Writing Systems

Chapter 5: Acquiring and Teaching a New Writing System Vivian Cook Summarized by Dolphin Lin

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I. What is a writing system? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Two Main Writing System of the World Alphabetic: Spanish, Russian, Hindi etc Consonantal: Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc. C haracter-based: Chinese, Japanese (kanji) Syllabic: Japanese (kana), many Indian languages (Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati etc) Needs: – unvarying word forms, e.g Chinese – many thousands of characters Needs: – some phonological properties e.g. predictable vowels (Arabic) – small number of symbols 淼 ; 森 ; 驫 Morlock; priori incantatem; honorificabilitudinitatibus Meaning-based writing systems Sound-based writing systems

Sound-based/ Meaning-based writing system ,[object Object],[object Object]

Correspondence Rules ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Vertical vs Horizontal writing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

II. Spelling ,[object Object],[object Object],Words that do not follow the rules Words that contain silent letters; that is, letters that must be included when you write the words even though they are not pronounced. Words that contain letters that have nothing to do with the way the words are pronounced. Words that have the same sounds but are spelled differently.

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Mistakes with English Spelling ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

III. Punctuation ,[object Object],[object Object]

Punctuation includes… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What is Punctuation for? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

IV. The writing system and language teaching ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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