[AAACE-NLA] Pre- and Post-NIFL Agenda

[HKerr at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/05/2010 22:21:13 GMT Daylight Time,  
ruhtra.glc at ellijay.com writes:

However,  what I did find EVERY interview was 
clear report of a significant  emotional situation that coincided to 
within one year of that student's  initial TABE assessment scores


I haven't done a proper project like this, but I am certain that the  same 
would be found in almost any ABE class. We have, IMO, persistently  
underestimated the effect of affect on literacy learning. I do not believe that  the 
affect is always dramatic or intense enough to qualify as 'trauma', but I 
am  sure that negative affect even at a less extreme level is both powerful 
and  common. Even simply the circular and self-reinforcing effect of early 
failure is  likely to be enough to risk cementing failure thereafter. Negative 
affect will  also have the effect of producing those 'odd' patterns of 
difficulties, of  strange mixes of abilities and inabilities, which tempt us 
into neurological  'diagnoses'. 
 
Hugo


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