"Wow! You just came here to the United States, how did you learn to read in English so quickly?"
"As an older ML student, I have higher cognitive abilities. "Cognition grows like our feet, regardless of the path of life we walk"."
It's not magic! It is just cross-linguistic transfer.Like me, she had a rich academic background andestablished literacy in her home language.
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"Yes, but speaking is definitely more difficult than reading. Therefore, I can't be expected to perfectlyexpress myself fluently and grammatically in speech before I am taught to read and write!"
"Facts! So I am guessing your oracy and literacy are supporting each other?"
"Ahhh, the beauty of the bilingual brain! I love this for us"
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So, comprehension plays a large part in you learning to read? When given a word, you need to see it, sound it, and in order to make meaning, be shown a picture or a visual?"
"Correct. Once I decode something in reading, I need to know what it means or it really doesn't make sense to me, pictures and visualsreally help."
Yes! Reading is the product not the sum of Comprehension and Decoding. They bothdirectly affect the product, need a value, and one is not more important than the other.
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