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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
wiley   +1 more source

Invented spelling programmes and the access to the alphabetic principle in kindergarten.

L1 Education Studies in Language and Literature, 2012
This study aims to understand the effects of two invented spelling programmes in the development of children's invented spelling, namely to the phonetization of writing and to understand the correlations between phonological awareness and knowledge of letters and the phonetization procedures.
Horta, Inês de Vasconcelos, Martins, Margarida Alves   +1 more
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Invented spelling : applications in the kindergarten classroom

, 1997
The purpose of this study was to examine the development, over a ten month period, of one kindergarten class participating in a planned journal entry program.
Donahue, Cynthia Ann
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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

Invented spelling in adults: more data*

, 1982
After learning the English alphabet, a very few children, perhaps 10% or less, 1 "spontaneously" begin to create their own "invented spellings." Children who participate in invented spelling activity are faced with the task of providing representations of approximately 40 phonemic sounds (depending upon the dialect of English under consideration) with ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Patterns of invented spelling in Spanish

, 2002
This study proposes to examine the invented spelling patterns that Spanish speaking children create in their writing. Their writing samples were then transcribed and each word was categorized as either conventional or an invented ...
Pérez, Mercedes
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Janet Malcolm's Self‐Portrait

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Jerome Boyd Maunsell
wiley   +1 more source

Contextual Learning of New Meanings for Familiar Words: Perturbation of Original Meanings Occurs Without Deliberate Study

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study investigated learning new meanings of known words from reading, following Hulme et al.’s (2018) study. English speakers read four short stories containing 16 critical words (i.e., familiar word forms assigned invented secondary meanings).
Nurul Aini Mohd Jelani, Irina Elgort
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of Invented Spelling Progress of First Grade Students in Whole Language Classrooms [PDF]

, 1990
The purpose of this study was to determine the spelling progress of first grade students in whole language classrooms. Using a modified version of Graves spelling stages, the study investigated students' invented spelling development from October to June.
Plutchak, Sharon
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The role of invented spelling in early literacy

, 2002
An awareness and understanding of invented spelling in early literacy were presented in this research paper. The developmental stages and guidelines associated with invented spelling were discussed.
Carper, Nancy
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