General quuery.
Has anybody heard from:
"Joe" <allegrox_2000@y...>
It has been 10 days since he posted anything.
Subject: Re: Learning to Read with Shavian
Hi Scott
That's an interesting article. I couldn't read the keyboard Unifon
or the others, even though I've studied them a little, but I breezed
right through the Shavian at a rate that surprized even myself,
until I got to the word "appreciated", which is not spelled the way
I pronounce it.
I've found that Shavian was easier to learn than I first expected.
--- In shavian@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Bett" <stbett@y...> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> I think it could be much easier that you describe in a one sound
per
> symbol system. Here is why:
>
> At the University of Chicago Lab school, 5 and 6 year old children
> were simply given the Unifon sound-symbol correspondence chart and
> told to start writing notes to each other. Some preschool kids
> picked up the code in a half hour and started helping their peers.
> It took about 3 weeks for all the kids to learn the code and about
3
> months to overlearn it. All were code literate at the end of 3
> months.
>
> Laubach demonstrated that any highly phonemic writing system can
be
> learned in 3 months. So it is not unusual that English could also
be
> learned in 3 months if it were written in Shavian or some other
> highly phonemic code. Lauback developed literacy materials for
over
> 300 languages.
>
> What is achieved is code literacy, not literacy in the traditional
> code. All of the children mastered Unifon in a 3 month writing to
> read program. They could write any word they could pronounce and
> pronounce any word written in the Unifon code.
>
> Laubach's test was the ability to read a newspaper. The Unifon
test
> would be reading a transcribed newspaper but understanding would
be
> limited by the fact that some words in the article would not be in
> the children's speech vocabulary. They might be able to read
aloud
> the transcribed news, but they would not necessarily be able to
> understand what they were saying.
>
> The key to over-learning the code is the writing to read approach
> and the emphasis of peer to pear learning. You do not need to
> explain why. Learning 40 sound-signs permit you to express
yourself
> and write notes to your friends.
>
> For a Shavian - Unifon correspondence table see
> http://www.foolswisdom.com/~sbett/14-unifon-ipa-shavian16.gif
>
> The whole article can be found at
> http://www.foolswisdom.com/~sbett/shavian-short.html
>
> For another article on Shavian see
> http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j31/shawbett.html