Grammer - puncturation - riting. Disgusting...
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What we actually have is two modes of communication (or two languages, if you like).
Neither is intrinsically 'better' than the other. And using one rather than the other isn't a sign greater or lesser intelligence.
Each is perfectly good - but not always equally appropriate. imo
What I type and how I type it varies depending on who I am emailing, is it a work email or a personal email.
Suz - that article and excerpt - OH MY GOD ;nonono . I have never come across ITA, I really feel for you and others who went through that! How on earth did they think effectively teaching a completely different written language would help children‽ Seriously, what a ridiculous way to confuse young minds. Today I have learned.
That ITA thing is insane!
What a ridiculous attempt to solve the problem of English spelling. Which is, of course, also mad. But for sound historical reasons. ;biggrin
Government is forever moving the goalposts.
Gove ;angry ;angry
POTUS
It's not even consistent. ;doh
So they invent a symbol for the sound in aull (all) and waurm (warm) but then don't use it it for the same sound in stormy.
So it doesn't even regularise the symbol-sound relationship which is at the root of so many spelling/reading problems, which is what they were trying to address in the first place. ;lol
Pretty much every new secondary school English teacher goes through this:
a) Gets first set of extended writing from Year 7 pupils (first years in old money)
b) Sees lots of common errors, spread across the class
c) Fumes (silently and privately) at inept primary teachers, and prepares a series of lessons to teach the children the few simple rules that will sort this out in no time
d) Receives next set of extended writing and discovers the key effect of trying to teach whole class spelling/punctuation/grammar at secondary level:
Those that knew still know
Those that didn't know still don't know
Of the middle group, some of those that didn't know now know, but you've managed to so confuse those that did kind of know that now they don't know anymore
e) Develop the humility to recognise that you are unlikely to achieve in a few lessons (or years) what dedicated, skilled primary teachers couldn't manage in some six or seven years
The only time, imo, that we should really worry about spelling or punctuation is when it genuinely impedes understanding.
I dare you.
;biggrin
Most of the time in English, we add the suffix -s to make a plural, or for the 3rd person singular present (he/she walks.)
When pupils are really confused, and effectively just litter their writing with random apostrophes when they find an -s at the end, they will make far few mistakes if they never use one.
So, teach them not to use one = fewer mistakes = 'raising standards'...
You'd think the policy at the time was to take a confusing thing and add several extra layers of contradictory confusing'ness to it, then hand the whole thing to a classroom full of 5 year olds.
;angry
;lol
Presumably there was some research done which indicated that wasting a couple of years on learning to read and write a made-up language would somehow make learning real English easier. If a bit slower, on account of the time you spent on the other thing first.
I'm not convinced they thought it through. ;puzzled
It may well have worked for other's who stuck with it but I was plucked from one system and dumped into another so effectively was unable to read and write at the age of 7.
It took my parents a long time to convince the new school that I was neither stupid nor lazy.
My mum in fact went back to a particular teacher with a copy of my O'Level results and asked him if he would like some assistance in depositing them were there was no sun ;biggrin
Being born in 1961, I attended a very ordinary primary school so presume that I was "prime time" to be exposed to ITA but I truthfully have never heard of it.
Thank heavens for that !!!
An informative article on ITA. If you are interested in that kind of thing.
The most obvious downfall in the research was that they didn't do a longitudinal study.
I could swap you some laser-disc players and a Sinclair C5.
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it's true
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of the verse,
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard
Cord is different from word.
Cow is cow but low is low
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose, dose,and lose
And think of goose and yet with choose
Think of comb, tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll or home and some.
Since pay is rhymed with say
Why not paid with said I pray?
Think of blood, food and good.
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Wherefore done, but gone and lone -
Is there any reason known?
To sum up all, it seems to me
Sound and letters don't agree.
Lord Cromer
That Lord was a master of the written word
But not so good with food
A master of the written word
But useless with his sword.
I like this....................