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John Richmond Writings on Language and Learning 19751995 Language and LearningIf we accept both the profoundly structured nature of writing and its rolling, unpredictable creativity, we may be in a better position to understand it and, from there, to help our pupils with it. Ultimately, whatever ‘method’ or ‘methods’ is or are used to teach reading, it or they will fail unless children learn, from the very earliest age, that reading, apart from being a thing of immense use-value, is also one of the principal sources of joy, delight and pleasure that life affords. The seven years d...
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