Annotated
Research
Question: What is the
relationship between punctuation marks and auditory “imagery”?
Answer: “Found a
relation between punctuation units (stretches of language between punctuation
marks and the intonation units of speech, based in part on the auditory imagery
of intonation, accents, and hesitation that both readers and writers
experience.” W Chafe. 1988. P. 219.
Comment: Suggests that students internalize the
“imagery” of intonation, accents and hesitation when reading aloud.
Interesting. Can use as a basis for teaching punctuation. Might begin a unit on
punctuation by having students read aloud, noting the punctuation in the
material read. Remember that spoken essay by the pianist who was so funny,
Victor Borge? He invented sounds of the various punctuation marks. RayS.
Title: “Annotated
Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” Ed. JD Marshall and RK
Durst. Research in the Teaching of
English (May 1989), 208-222.
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