2 Mar
2005
2 Mar
'05
2:13 p.m.
=David Wilson When we are beginning readers, we read each letter of each word left to right and sound it out. When we become experienced readers, we read the words as units.
Which perhaps explains in a nutshell why the "whole language" approach to reading was apparently such a pedagogical disaster.
thereareevenscriptslikeancientgreekwheretherearenovisiblecues...
Somewhere I heard of an interesting experiment contrasting "agglutination" versus "isolation" in languages: when correcting enunciation mistakes speakers start over on what they perceive as word boundaries, rather than phonemes--giving, eg, English more granular error-recovery than, say, German.
...Arabic...foR...n'twould...
Fun!nuF