Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, there are Chinese Web sites out there. There are now quite a range of ways in which to input Chinese characters into computers, but the Chinese written language prevents them from ever being as easy to use as keyboarding in the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Furthermore, there is extra software required to read most of the Chinese sites...
Based on her findings, she pushed for including the alphabet in the show. Many had resisted the idea, criticized learning the alphabet as a useless rote exercise...
...Chall insisted and the alphabet became central to Sesame Street...
...fabulous show right from the start. It [the alphabet] was more fun than anything else. They had celebrities reciting the alphabet," she says. "Children learned...
...according to Chall, the response teaching the alphabet garnered was one of the first indications of the show's viability...