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Saw this on reddit days ago, still waiting for someone to show any kind of scientific evidence for it's usefulness.

loxias 4y ago
Agree. Would love to see some text even explaining what this is or why it's supposed to help. I just see a git repo with no explanation...
- dvhh 4y ago
  As mentioned in one of the comment this is linked to a certain methodology of teaching reading. One where the reader is more focused on the overall shape of the word rather than the individual letters (from memory I think it is the "global reading method"). I think it can have great effect on the speed of reading, but downside effect is less accurate spelling. Also when encountering "Exotic" words reading speed can slow to a crawl as to try to memorize the shape of the word. I have not found study linking the reading speed and the speed of learning, I would theorize that one has no effect on the other. But recent technologies like auto-correction and word completion have partially compensated these mistakes and recent trend of journalism to "paraphrasing" news cable somewhat amplified its effect.
  - loxias 4y ago
    Thanks so much for your comment! I learned a thing! I (apparently) read that way (global reading method), I don't know any other way to read, and I wasn't sure it was anything unusual. My parents didn't do anything special, it's just how I read. I also have atrocious spelling, always have, and can't read things with exotic words. (when reading sci-fi I skip all proper nouns). This also explains why "bionic" is doing nothing for me -- it's meant to nudge one to where I already am.
    - dvhh 4y ago
      I did some research and Wikipedia pointed to the whole language method (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language) as opposed to the phonics method (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics) which focus more on how words are composed from syllables. As a non expert, my analysis would be reduced to : - whole word would focus of growing the list of words you would be able to recognize. - phonics focus on the link between speaking and reading, which I guess could build up self confidence for being more eloquent, and in my opinion would help with learning foreign languages.

Agree. Would love to see some text even explaining what this is or why it's supposed to help. I just see a git repo with no explanation...

dvhh 4y ago
As mentioned in one of the comment this is linked to a certain methodology of teaching reading. One where the reader is more focused on the overall shape of the word rather than the individual letters (from memory I think it is the "global reading method"). I think it can have great effect on the speed of reading, but downside effect is less accurate spelling. Also when encountering "Exotic" words reading speed can slow to a crawl as to try to memorize the shape of the word. I have not found study linking the reading speed and the speed of learning, I would theorize that one has no effect on the other. But recent technologies like auto-correction and word completion have partially compensated these mistakes and recent trend of journalism to "paraphrasing" news cable somewhat amplified its effect.
- loxias 4y ago
  Thanks so much for your comment! I learned a thing! I (apparently) read that way (global reading method), I don't know any other way to read, and I wasn't sure it was anything unusual. My parents didn't do anything special, it's just how I read. I also have atrocious spelling, always have, and can't read things with exotic words. (when reading sci-fi I skip all proper nouns). This also explains why "bionic" is doing nothing for me -- it's meant to nudge one to where I already am.
  - dvhh 4y ago
    I did some research and Wikipedia pointed to the whole language method (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language) as opposed to the phonics method (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics) which focus more on how words are composed from syllables. As a non expert, my analysis would be reduced to : - whole word would focus of growing the list of words you would be able to recognize. - phonics focus on the link between speaking and reading, which I guess could build up self confidence for being more eloquent, and in my opinion would help with learning foreign languages.