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“Serious" Learning: Language Lost
Danling Fu and Jane S. Townsend

Researchers Fu and Townsend compare the learning and writing experiences of a child during his kindergarten year (with frequent immersion in reading and writing activities in their writing workshop) to his first-grade year (with worksheets and decontextualized exercises), critically examining such "serious" literacy learning that lacks a real audience and a real purpose for students.
Language Arts, Vol. 76 No. 5, May 1999

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