基本信息
distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. it is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. douglas insists that “reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible”. teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. they differ in kind and function. the function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for c hildren to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to read. teaching is also public activity. it can be seen and observed. learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language. almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process is not open
