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alphabetic writing

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Noun1.alphabetic writing - a writing system based on alphabetic charactersalphabetic writing - a writing system based on alphabetic characters
orthography, writing system - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols


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Christensen (2004) investigated automaticity of integrating orthographic (letter) codes with motor output functions and discovered that automatic orthographic-motor integration on an alphabetic writing task explained significant variance in fluency of composing by both handwriting and keyboarding, but especially for keyboarding.
A few gleanings: Jerusalem was unwalled and unfortified between the 16th to 8th centuries; the Albright thesis of a unified conquest has been abandoned by mainstream scholarship; the spread of alphabetic writing did not antedate the.
On the other hand, if the child is taught exclusively by the look-say method, he is unlikely to be able to master reading our alphabetic writing system and is very likely to become functionally illiterate.
 
 
 
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