Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g2652du24881; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 00:02:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 00:02:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <b9.1caefeb0.29b6fc1e@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Nooalf@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:844] Re: Hi everybody X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 121 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_b9.1caefeb0.29b6fc1e_boundary" Status: O Content-Length: 3762 Lines: 53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am familiar with Pittman's I.T.A. The system was originally used throughout England in the 60's with great success . It had similar results here with a federally fund program , but simply faded away when the funds stopped . It is still in use, mainly to teach English to immigrants. There is a % of students who will have trouble learning to read traditional English under any circumstances and they were the same students who had problems making the transition . The main flaw , at least in this country, was that the teachers using it were not given any instructions on how to administer the program . Pittman's I.T.A. is not a perfectly phonetic system . Because its whole purpose was to teach traditional English, Pittman made various compromises to hopefully create a closer look to it . There are 10 more letters than needed and many of them are unwieldy monstrosities that serve no purpose but to make words look as they do in traditional English . Nooalf is intended to replace traditional English . Although it retains enough similarity to traditional spelling to be read by people who have never seen it before, it makes no compromise to the 1 letter per verbal sound rule . Since the present spelling is likely to remain dominant for at least another 20 years it will still be necessary for people to learn it . The advantage Nooalf offers is to establish a well organized phonetic logic in the student's minds with which to sort and classify the many incongruent spellings of the old nonsystem . Its a way to think about spelling rather than relying completely on memory . JO
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