[senco-forum] reading asoft

Your son has hit the nail on the head, the research shows

--- On Sat, 12/4/08, Philip MacMillan <P.Macmillan at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:

> Your son has hit the nail on the head, the research shows
> that even in 
> silent reading the sound of the word is heard internally.  
> Brain scans show 
> activity in the pre motor cortex in areas associated with
> the production of 
> speech, the meaning of a word is accessed through its
> sound.  This also 
> applies to non alphabetic writing systems such as Chinese. 
> We speak long 
> before we read and write and it is almost certain that the
> lexicon is 
> organized on the basis of phonology not orthography.
> 

But there  are plenty of people around who just do not believe this and who would argue that in 'silent' reading the process goes straight from visual recognition of the word to 'meaning'.   

Not only do they assert that this is the process, but they also insist that accessing the meaning of the word through sound is a Bad Thing and must be discouraged...

Maggie

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