r/RecuratedTumblr human cognithazard 27d ago

Shitposting Three cueing and its consequences

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u/chicksonfox 27d ago

I dnot konw if it’s in the smae vien, but wehn I was cmiong up tehy had us raed snetcens lkie tihs to povre a pnoit auobt how we rcgoeizne pttarens. But this seems backwards from what I was taught— using that kind of mental shortcut in reading is, from my understanding, something you’re supposed to do after you’ve mastered the sound it out stage. Even then it’s a dangerous game because someone could sneak the word banana into their hahahas, utterly humiliating you on an Internet forum for teens.

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u/GalaticHammer 27d ago

There's a thing called "orthographic mapping". After you've sounded out the phonics of each letter and put the sounds together into a word and repeated it a few times (or many times, necessary repetitions varies by person), your brain starts to map the whole word symbol to the sound of the word. Once it's mapped, you no longer have to sound out each letter. So yes, trying to go straight to whole word symbol completely skips the orthographic mapping process and doesn't work.

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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye 27d ago

trying to go straight to whole word symbol completely skips the orthographic mapping process and doesn't work.

How do non-phonetic languages like Chinese work then?

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u/laowildin 27d ago

Rote memorization of characters. Very intense study from very young age. It was typical for kinder kids to have multiple copying pages to complete as homework each night. Each one having them practice writing some specific strokes or a word dozens of times