Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties
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Re: Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties
#2Dr. Daniel Hajovsky, associate professor in Texas A&M University's Department of Educational Psychology published study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40863201/
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#3It would be nice to replicate in other languages. In Spanish and German, reading is almost phonetic, unlike English.
Anyway, from my experience with my daughter, the step from single letters to silabes is difficult.
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#4'an'?
Is bad grammar one of the reasons, even though the title suggests there is just one?
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#5[Not an expert] I met someone once who got very expensive glasses with some carefully calibrated prism to perfectly align both eyes. Like when you are exhausted you get double vision. His eyes were fine but with the glasses he could read all day as opposed to only a few hours. He only used them when his eyes started to tire. He said that anyone could have them made but was very curious how many poor readers could benefit as his tired eyes just felt like not wanting to read anymore.
Re: Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties
#6It would be nice to replicate in other languages. In Spanish and German, reading is almost phonetic, unlike English. Anyway, from my experience with my daughter, the step from single letters to silabes is difficult.
"Reading is almost phonetic" is a largely meaningless phrase. There are some orthographies that are more regular than others. But, indeed, the very confusion people love to talk about with English only works if it is phonetic, but ambiguous.
And just solving for one form of ambiguity does not, necessarily, help. Consider contronyms. Words that are literally their own opposites.
I'm convinced the main thing lost in getting kids to read, is that too many mistake interaction with the words as automatic. It isn't. Taking apart a word symbol by symbol and putting it back together in a different form is the entire point of teaching how to read. And if you don't teach kids to do that with words, are you surprised when they can't do it with equations?
Re: Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties
#7It would be nice to replicate in other languages. In Spanish and German, reading is almost phonetic, unlike English. Anyway, from my experience with my daughter, the step from single letters to silabes is difficult.
You should think "the step from single sounds to syllables", and the way to do that is to begin with the easy syllables like "tu", "mi", "el" (not unlike the multiplication or addition tables) before moving to longer ones. [And note that M alone is not "em", it has to be "m" when learning to read - a common pedagogical mistake! M + I makes "mi" not "emi", so M must be "m".] At least that's how children are taught in Finnish schools since sometime before the 1980s, and since then almost everyone learns to read during the first school semester. Also, one simple and efficient protection against dyslexia is to play the Graphogame (or similar) to get a lot of repetition with the sound-letter correspondences while learning to read (for various reasons, some brains take longer to build the necessary connections and you want to avoid the negative affects of learning slower than your peers if you can).
Re: Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties
#8It would be nice to replicate in other languages. In Spanish and German, reading is almost phonetic, unlike English. Anyway, from my experience with my daughter, the step from single letters to silabes is difficult.
"Reading is almost phonetic" is a largely meaningless phrase. There are some orthographies that are more regular than others. But, indeed, the very confusion people love to talk about with English only works if it is phonetic, but ambiguous. And just solving for one form of ambiguity does not, necessarily, help. Consider contronyms. Words that are literally their own opposites. I'm convinced the main thing lost in ge…
I think you misunderstand. In a largely phonetic language, almost everyone learns to read in one school semester, after which it's a fully solved problem - no spelling bees or anything. Peculiarly, you don't need spelling bees either when learning English later. ("Contronyms" and "words" are orthogonal to reading as they apply to spoken language too (and it's very much automatic).)
Re: Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties
#9It would be nice to replicate in other languages. In Spanish and German, reading is almost phonetic, unlike English. Anyway, from my experience with my daughter, the step from single letters to silabes is difficult.
"Reading is almost phonetic" is a largely meaningless phrase. There are some orthographies that are more regular than others. But, indeed, the very confusion people love to talk about with English only works if it is phonetic, but ambiguous. And just solving for one form of ambiguity does not, necessarily, help. Consider contronyms. Words that are literally their own opposites. I'm convinced the main thing lost in ge…
There is a reason why German kids don't have spelling bees.
Re: Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties
#10[Not an expert] I met someone once who got very expensive glasses with some carefully calibrated prism to perfectly align both eyes. Like when you are exhausted you get double vision. His eyes were fine but with the glasses he could read all day as opposed to only a few hours. He only used them when his eyes started to tire. He said that anyone could have them made but was very curious how many poor readers could ben…
In fact, I find your very comment as an example of the variety of visual experiences that exist that I hadn't even thought of. I mean when you say “Like when you are exhausted you get double vision” that itself sounds alien to me. I have been exhausted many times but never associated it with seeing double. I have only experienced involuntary double vision in certain circumstances during my recovery from a severe TBI.