[NLA] Practitioner-based research topics short

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Dear Nancy,

This is very short, but it is late for me.

I have spent quite a long while working on one of your questions,  How do 
learners learn? (5)  It has two sides, what the learner brings to the 
situation and what is the nature of the topic to be learned.  I have tackled 
it from both sides, 1) what are the foundations of language, what are the 
foundations of reading/writing (what is to be learned, what is the 
structure), and 2)  What does the learner bring to the task--what we know 
about the brain, how do learning differences interact with what is to be 
learned.  You can put on this side of the equation learner variables like 
culture and gender.

Others have worked or are working on this question, too. 

Why bother?   Because knowing how learners learn puts a tool into the hands 
of teachers and administrators, you don't have to rely on anyone else to 
create programs, or to do assessments, you know the stuff yourself.  It is 
also useful to be able to sift the wheat from the chaff when you have to make 
a teaching decision.

I am guessing you will get many many answers to your wonderful questions.

I'll tackle some more in daylight.

NEngland Hayseed,

Andrea
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