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Janet Albrecht, journalist BRING ON THE READING REVOLUTION 阅读革命（在澳洲的报道） Kevin Rudd has a unique opportunity to prove that the phonic teaching method is not political. Kevin Rudd 有一个独特的机会,以证明语音教学方法并不是政治上的（一个潮流）。 If the steady stream of dismal statistics has numbed the national consciousness about indigenous education failures, consider this. In remote learning centres – note, they’re not even called schools – Mem Fox’s picture book, Wombat Divine, was the only book used to teach literacy to indigenous children from one year to 10 years during the final term in 2005. As Helen Hughes, professor emeritus at the Australian National University and a Senior Fellow at the centre for Independent Studies, revealed in a paper released on Monday, indigenous students were taught to read by guessing whole words. Is it any wonder that statistics tell us that pitifully few indigenous children learn how to read? Surely, then, an education revolution starts at the most basic level when children learn to read. 假如国民意识源源不断的教育失败的统计数字麻木，。在学习中心–注意，他们甚至称为学校–纪念狐狸的图画书，袋熊神圣，是，在2005土著儿童从一年至年间识字。海伦休斯，澳大利亚国立大学名誉教授和高级研究员原住民学生。难怪统计数字告诉我们，？，教育革命最基孩子学习阅读。 I read your article with a head nodding sense of dismay. How many times have we been at this door? These literacy wars have been going on since the late seventies, when research began to unravel the conflict between what was termed top-down whole word-whole language instructional methodologies and bottom-up based phonic based approaches. If this debate has been nothing else, it’s been one politically based drawn out affair, essentially devoid of argument based on evidence and reflective of the preferences of activists. 我读过你的文章，并对你的沮丧感同身受。多少次我们已经站在了出口。七十年代末以来这些战争一直在，当研究开始解开冲突，所谓的自上而下的整语言教学方法和自下而上的语音的办法。如果这次辩论已没有别的，这是一个政治的事件，缺乏，反映了优惠活动。 I became a participant in this ‘war’ in the late eighties as a psychology masters student whose relatively simply research was to measure what type of words were useful in revealing those children likely to r