On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 05:17 AM, HaywireMac wrote:
If I understand it correctly they tried for few years in Israel to use the pattern method to teach kid to read and write. It failed miserably. So much so that in this school year they went back to the old system. It will be intersting to hear from anyone living in Israel and having school age kids their opinion on what went wrong.On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:08:07 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
What did Chomsky say about it?
Well, exactly what that Cambridge research showed, that people learn
language not in bits and pieces like the "phonics" method still in use
today, but by grokking whole chunks of meaning from analyzing contextual
patterns in speech and writing. I can't do him justice, so I won't go
further than that. Look him up on Google, there's lots out there, or
should I say tehres ltos out trehe.
Avi
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
