[Reading-hall-of-fame] RE: Reading-hall-of-fame Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1

[Jay Samuels]

Let me try a different track to the question of is an acoustic image of a
word a prerequisite for comprehension when reading an alphabetic script such
as English. The assumption has long been that when reading a logographic
script such as Chinese, one goes directly from print to meaning. It is my
understanding that Charles Perfetti found [and this to me was most exciting]
that there is an intermediate acoustic stage even when reading with a
Chinese script. A Chinese grad student here at Minnesota reported this
during an exam. To continue, work done at U.C. Berkeley in the 60's or 70's
in which sensors were put on skilled readers vocal cords found evidence of
silent speech going on while reading, sort of like reading orally to oneself
in one's head, sub luminal speech, as one read for meaning. Jay samuels

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   1. Please point me in the right direction (Brian Cambourne)


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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:03:41 +1100
From: Brian Cambourne <brian_cambourne at uow.edu.au>
Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Please point me in the right direction
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Colleagues,
I've been  mulling over the following issue and need some help.

At the core of some phonics advocates' theories and research is that   
decoding is an essential pre-requisite of comprehension when reading  
an alphabetic based text. I interpret this to imply one can only  
comprehend ( "get to meaning") when reading an alphabetic text by  
going through sound first.

I've been looking for the definitive research or study which  
conclusively "proves" that one can only get to meaning by first going  
through sound when reading an alphabetically based writing system. So  
far I've not found one, but perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places.

  Can anyone in the RHF point me in  the direction of  any study or  
studies which support the claim that decoding to sound is an  
essentail or necessary pre-requisite for accessing the meaning of  
the  an alphabetically based writing system such as English?  Many of  
those in Australia I try to discuss this issue with become quite  
defensive (and often aggressive) and argue that it's "just common  
sense". I need your help in preparing a  paper on this issue

   Brian Cambourne


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