Reviews for The Dynamic Interlanguage

The average rating for The Dynamic Interlanguage based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-08-30 00:00:00 Kevin Estrada This is a mixed bag so far. I got the book because it contains Harris's excellent "Knowing, Rhetoric, and science" (of which I had read a draft) along with several other interesting-sounding piece. Of those I have read so far, Clark's article on genre is useful (though covering some now-familiar ground), while everything but the very end of Fleming's article on "The End of Composition-Rhetoric" makes me wonder if he and I work in the same field, or even the same universe. Update: I am even more baffled by Williams' piece, "Rhetoric and the Triumph of Liberal Democracy" in which he refers to the demise of standards and the death of excellence in American higher education without ever substantiating his claims, and in which he dismisses all of what he calls "identity politics" as being "based on superficial, deritualized, shared values and perspectives" and therefore not on par with "real community" (149). More comments to come as I read other pieces.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-03-27 00:00:00 Prakash Sharma update: I have decided this curriculum doesn't work well for my family. If I had a student having trouble blending, this might be a good resource until they have mastered the technique. Repetitively reading lists of words is too tedious and boring for both me and my students. I have surveyed this book as I research homeschooling Kindergarten in the fall. I really like how this book seems pretty comprehensive. It covers K-2 phonics and spelling lessons in one book. It doesn't have a lot of teacher instructions so little lesson prep time. It also has multi-sensory lesson options. The only thing it doesn't seem to cover is comprehension. I can't give it a full rating until I teach lessons from it, but this is top on my list for phonics curriculum so far.