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  • A Finale: Learning to Read and Write is a Remarkable Human Feat

    A Finale: Learning to Read and Write is a Remarkable Human Feat

    What have I learned from my exploration of whether learning to read is natural or unnatural? It’s complicated.

    manderson

    January 28, 2022
    Language, Literacy, Natural or Unnatural?, Reading
    Language, Reading, research
  • The Relation of Speech to Reading and Writing

    The Relation of Speech to Reading and Writing

    In this post, we examine another argument made against the naturalness of reading by Alvin Liberman in 1992. The distinction, according to Liberman, may be that one is biological in evolution, while the other is cultural.

    manderson

    January 23, 2022
    Language, Literacy, Natural or Unnatural?, Phonemic Awareness, Phonology, Reading
    Language, Reading, research, Speech-language Pathology
  • An Interlude: What do we mean when we say learning something is unnatural?

    An Interlude: What do we mean when we say learning something is unnatural?

    An interlude reflecting on what we’ve learned from the Goodmans and Gough and Hillinger on the debate of whether learning to read is natural or unnatural.

    manderson

    January 22, 2022
    Language, Literacy, Natural or Unnatural?, Reading
    Language, research
  • Learning to Read: An Unnatural Act

    Learning to Read: An Unnatural Act

    In this post, we’ll explore a strong counterargument to the Goodmans’ argument that learning to read is natural. And it has something to do with the distinction between a code and a cipher.

    manderson

    January 17, 2022
    Language, Literacy, Natural or Unnatural?, Phonemic Awareness, Phonology, Reading
    Michael Hillinger, Phillip Gough, Reading, reading research
  • Learning to Read is Natural

    Learning to Read is Natural

    In this paper, the Goodmans claim that learning to read is natural. Are they right?

    manderson

    January 8, 2022
    Language, Literacy, Natural or Unnatural?, Reading
    Ken Goodman, Language, Reading, research
  • What is (un)natural about learning to read and write?

    What is (un)natural about learning to read and write?

    What is (un)natural about learning to read and write? In a series of posts, we’ll examine three seminal papers investigating the nature of literacy development and its relation to language learning.

    manderson

    January 8, 2022
    Language, Literacy, Natural or Unnatural?, Reading
    Language, Reading, research
  • The Science of Reading Across Languages

    The Science of Reading Across Languages

    Digging into “Is the Science of Reading Just the Science of Reading English?” by David L. Share

    manderson

    December 29, 2021
    Language, Literacy, Mulilingual Learners, Phonemic Awareness, Phonology, Reading
    cross-linguistic research, Language, orthographic complexity, Reading, research
  • The Sound and the Fury of Phonemes and Reading

    The Sound and the Fury of Phonemes and Reading

    Here is my Yule time gift to my fellow reading nerds: I am honored that a version of my blog post about my shift in thinking on phonemic awareness has been published in the latest Nomanis. Do check out this newer version for the research goods. And a big thank you to Tiffany Peltier for…

    manderson

    December 23, 2021
    Language, Literacy, Phonemic Awareness, Phonology, Reading
  • Irregularity Enhances Learning (Maybe)

    Irregularity Enhances Learning (Maybe)

    In this paper, the author makes an argument that the contrasting forces of “discriminability” and “regularity” both serve to make language something we pick up pretty much naturally, even if we don’t know all the words in the language.

    manderson

    December 18, 2021
    Language
    information theory, Journal of Child Language, Language
  • Language Within and Beyond the Brain

    As I was preparing for a session I was facilitating recently, I went down a rabbit hole on language use and cognition. I know saying “went down the rabbit hole” typically bears a negative connotation, but I gotta say, I love me some getting lost in meandering exploratory nerdy byalleyways. While rabbit holes may oft…

    manderson

    November 6, 2021
    Language, Neuroscience
    Language, research, usage-based approach
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