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| Some Thoughts about Primary School Literacy and Its Law |
| SHAN Zi |
| Basic Education Institution, Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, Beijing, 100101
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Abstract This paper discusses the definition of literacy and the law of literacy. The author first defines literacy as to establish a correct, steady and automatic link among the shape, the pronunciation and the meaning of Chinese characters. Based on this definition, the author put forward five laws of literacy, namely to establish a correct link among the shape, the pronunciation and the meaning of Chinese characters from the authority; to learn new characters based on familiar ones; to get better learning effects by understanding Chinese characters in specific contexts; to consider the previous experiences of the students; to provide chances for students to use new characters again and again. As a conclusion, the correct direction of literacy teaching is to enlarge the vocabulary of the students. And the amount of positive vocabulary is the fundamental measure of literacy teaching.
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Received: 08 April 2014
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2014, Vol. 11 
