Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:58:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960717155047.8100A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960717161328.252F-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu>
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> > If you were a computer, yes. But you are human with astonishing > image processing capabilities. You can quickly identify a letter > with independent of its typeface. There are probably quite a > number of words that you can visually chunk as a single "icon", > while less common words require digesting the letters and then > getting the word from that. The latest research, which is killing the "whole language" school of teaching reading, demonstrates that very very few words are "chuncked" as a single icon; the competent, fast reader looks at every single letter of virtually every word, and skips or guesses very few words. Among the few that are chunked are the, of, and are; among those sometimes skipped are a, an, any. National Institutes of Health study, cost the taxpayers $25 million. Not sure it's relevant....but sort of interesting. Annelise >
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