{"product_id":"the-research-tours-the-impacts-of-orthographic-disadvantage-9780645535341","title":"The Research Tours: The Impacts of Orthographic Disadvantage","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second book of the \u003cem\u003eAussie Reading Woes\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy, \u003cem\u003eThe Research Tours: The Impacts of Orthographic Disadvantage\u003c\/em\u003e explores and explains research findings on key issues impeding Australian children's literacy development, education and school functioning, and logical practical solutions (the 10 Changes).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book for readers interested in education and Australia's needs for improvement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Galletly \u003cem\u003eBSpThy MEd PhD\u003c\/em\u003e is an Australian learning disabilities researcher and specialist, speech language pathologist and teacher, with decades of experience in research and practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown the decades, educators have paid surprisingly little attention to orthographic complexity. An orthography is a spelling system, and nations choose the orthographies they use. Highly-regular orthographies, e.g., Finnish, Italian, and Korean, ease and speed early literacy development, with children reading and writing effectively within a few months. Highly-complex orthographies such as Australia's Standard English greatly impede early-literacy development, e.g., test norms show Australian word-reading and spelling development take six and nine years, respectively, on average, with many children and adults never achieving healthy reading and writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Standard English orthographies of Australia, UK and USA are among the world's most complex orthographies, with researchers considering them outliers to the continuum of orthographic complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost nations use highly regular orthographies. Some use a single highly-regular orthography, e.g., Finland, Italy, Spain. Others, including Taiwan, Japan and China, whose orthographies are far more complex than English, use highly-regular beginners' orthographies. These ensure rapid easy early-literacy development, and smooth transitioning to strong reading and writing their highly complex orthographies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough rapid easy literacy development, regular-orthography nations can have orthographic advantage: strong advantage at child, school, education system and national level. In contrast, Anglophone nations have severe orthographic disadvantage. Australia needs to explore the potential of beginners' orthographies, older age when learning to read, and other strategic changes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell-researched (referring to over 750 research publications), \u003cem\u003eThe Research Tours \u003c\/em\u003eis insightful, and wise. It's also an entertaining and surprisingly easy read, using clear explanations and useful detailing of the implications of research studies as numbered lists of directions and recommendations for Australian education to pursue. A book towards a highly positive future for Australia and Anglophone nations, it finishes with \u003cem\u003e100 Research Questions\u003c\/em\u003e, encouraging keen knowledge building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe middle book of the \u003cem\u003eAussie Reading Woes\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy, three independent books with no set reading order, \u003cem\u003eThe Research Tours\u003c\/em\u003e is book-ended by its partner books, \u003cem\u003eBunyips in the Classroom: The 10 Changes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe 10 Changes: The Nitty Gritty\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eBunyips \u003c\/em\u003e(Book 1) introduces the 10 Changes and associated issues, including our many education bunyips (important issues Australian education has largely overlooked), while \u003cem\u003eThe Nitty Gritty\u003c\/em\u003e (Book 3) provides needed useful detail on orthographies, Australia's current epidemic of children at-risk for literacy and learning difficulties, and many other important issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Galletly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Literacy Plus Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780645535341\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Literacy Plus Australia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41127017185395,"sku":"9.78065E+12","price":45.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0eaea9ca-2f48-404c-abab-44e658f03c13.jpg?v=1701181179","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-research-tours-the-impacts-of-orthographic-disadvantage-9780645535341","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}