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[EnglishLanguage 2919] Re: [LearningDisabilities 2349] The "Decoding" of words, sentences, and paragraphs
Robert Iakobashvili
coroberti at gmail.comThu Sep 25 16:22:58 EDT 2008
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Dear Thomas,
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:45 PM, <tsticht at znet.com> wrote:
> The "Decoding" of Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs
> Much discussion of teaching using alphabetics (phonemics; phonics) aims at
> learning to decode written words. Of course, this is necessary for reading.
> But beyond the word are the sentence and paragraph. Fluent reading may
> depend to some extent on how well people can construct sentences and
> compile them into paragraphs. The question arises, do more skilled readers
> develop a greater ability to construct sentences and compile them into
> paragraphs?
Absolutely agree with you. The same words taken in different context may
be of a different meaning. Context is delivered not by a word, but by
a sentence/paragraph.
>
> We found that on average the high ability readers accurately identified 99
> percent of words accurately, sentences with 77 percent accuracy, and
> paragraphs with 88 percent accuracy. For the low ability readers words were
> identified with 77 percent accuracy, sentences with 12 percent accuracy,
> and paragraphs with 19 percent accuracy.
>
> This raises the possibility that in reading normal texts, low ability
> readers may not achieve higher fluency skills in part because of a weakness
> in sentence meaning construction and paragraph meaning compiling skills.
> Possibly alphabetics may provide effective word recognition while whole
> language teaching may foster the development of sentence and paragraph
> construction and compilation abilities. These are aspects of "decoding"
> written language that I have not seen given attention in reading research,
> with either children or adults.
Could you provide a link to your papers? Thank you.
Looks like, that writing has a similar pattern.
Therefore, we ( Ghotit ) are using context-aware spelling for dyslectic users,
whereas meaning of spelling candidates is explained by description sentences
and/or examples.
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Truly,
Robert Iakobashvili, Ph.D.
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