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Subject:RE: Re: How do we read? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techpubs -at- genek -dot- com> To:cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:12 Sep 2003 20:40:52 GMT
It's a lot more complicated than that, because not everyone
learns to read English the same way. ESL readers may or
may not read sentences as phrases, and whether they do or
don't will vary depending upon their own native language.
And then there are those unfortunate native English readers
who are the result of "whole language" teaching. They may
look at that sentence and either be totally lost because
the jumbled words don't sufficiently resemble the "images"
of words they were supposedly taught to remember, or if
the "images" are close enough for them to recognize they
may not even realize that there's anything wrong with
them...
Gene Kim-Eng
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Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:52:20 -0700 Chuck Martin?wrote:
It'd be interesting to see just how that study was laid out. One thing I learned was that reading doesn't take in a word at a time, but phrases.
