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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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