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Structural Literacy

Structural Literacy is the instructional principle that literacy develops most efficiently when teaching aligns with the intrinsic structural encoding mechanism of the target language.
A lighthouse beacon on the horizon and an anchor in the foreground, representing MetaChinese Institute’s Beacon–Anchor Theory: beacons to see, anchors to hold in structural literacy.

Why Students Need Anchors to Read?

What do persistent spelling errors in English and character mix-ups in Chinese reveal about how literacy actually works? Drawing on Dr. Fan’s cross-linguistic teaching experience, this essay explores a deeper pattern across languages. Originally published in Education Week.
Dr. Fan 18 Feb 2026

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