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luqmanmichel
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Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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 Post subject: Shut Down Learners Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:09 pm |
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I teach dyslexic children 3 languages. They read fluently, just like any other kid, in Malay and Romanized Mandarin. They, however, are dyslexic when it comes to English.
I have asked myself as why this anomaly and have come to realise that it is because English is an orthographically inconsistent language.
I find that most of my students 'shut down' when I teach them things that are not logical to them. They continue to learn when I have explained what they find illogical. A few examples may make this clear.
When I teach them the following words they learn them with ease -
but, cut, gut, hut, nut and rut. However, when I teach them the word 'put' their eyes widen and they give a blank look. I teach one on one and was surprised that many of my students had the same 'symptoms'. Then it occurred to me that the word 'put' did not make sense to them as it was pronounced differently from all the other words I had just taught them.
Another instance is when I taught them the words - bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, rat and sat. They learnt all these words as fast as any other kid could. However, the moment I taught them "A cat." I saw the same expressions of disbelief. Again this happened to each kid as I taught them. I was baffled for a while until I realised that this was simply because I had taught them the sound of 'a' to be 'air' as in cat. Having learnt this they shut down when I taught them "A" carrying the sound 'er'. as in 'A cat'.
I explained that they should not learn English the way they learnt Malay and Romanized Mandarin where each alphabet had only one sound. I told them that in English the letter 'a' has at least 6 sounds.
As such each time I come to a 'new sound' for any of the letters they have not yet learnt I explain it to them and this makes it easy for them to accept.
Read my conversations with Dr.Selznick who wrote the book on shut down learner in my blog in the month of June.
Thank you.
Luqman Michel
http://www.parentingdyslexia.com |
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kot12345
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Joined: 28 Apr 2013
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| Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 4:43 am |
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We teach dislexic children both english and spanish. They read fluently and write in their notebooks too, as you wrote luqmanmichel. This is a great idea to work with dyslexis children.
Very best!
Mia Yi
http://www.koniewbieszczadach.pl |
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