Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h4DDDbC12230; Tue, 13 May 2003 09:13:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:13:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <A1064140F022D3118EBE0008C791936404573685@fegsmail1.fegs.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Hacker, Emily" <EHacker@fegs.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2841] FW: Unweaving the Web: reading "truths" X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Status: O Content-Length: 2703 Lines: 61 Another response from Chris. --Emily >Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 08:16:25 -0400 >To: nifl-technology@nifl.gov >From: Christina Zarcadoolas <Christina_Zarcadoolas@brown.edu> >Subject: are there reading "truths" > >At 12:48 AM 5/13/03 -0400, you wrote: >Steve, >Thanks for the resource site. > >I'd like to think about Tom's question about linearity. > >I too keep getting back to print (sorry - the linguist beast rears its >head to often) - but as I read these interesting posts I'm reminded of a >major issue about what we know and don't know about low lit readers. Both >NALS and the clear language movement have been important in putting >literacy on the radar screen in some spheres. But the by-catch, if you >will, has been a tenacious movement to simplify vocabulary and sentence >structure. So we talk about easy to read materials highlighting these >aspects of the content/message. And then we test these materials, and lo >and behold, our patient focus group or cognitive testing participants >demonstrate that, indeed, they can read the revised material with more >comprehension. But then along comes this wonderful format - hypertext) >that in some ways, more accurately mimics what real people do in real >reading settings. They jump forward and loop back; they scan; they read >on until things make sense. ( Long established as fluent reading >strategies among reading educators in the 60s and 70s. > >If we begin with overly narrow assumptions about the linearity of print >and try to accommodate them in hypertext - seems like we come to no >good. Anybody else suspicious about this? > >Chris > > > ******************************************************************* Please List Your Job Openings with FEGS at (212)366-8039 If You Are interested in Making a Donation to FEGS to Help Us Continue To Provide Essential Crisis Support Services, please contact Gail Magaliff, COO at (212)366-8551 or send an e-email to gmagaliff@fegs.org PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT www.fegs.org ************************NOTE************************************** The information contained in this email message is intended only for use of the addressee(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by tel (212-366-8400), and discard the original message. Thank you for your cooperation. *******************************************************************
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