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oh my god in america they teach kids to read by guessing based on the general vibe of the sentence this explains so much about how tumblr works. You people literally don't know half of the words im saying because you don't need to when you read with your Keen Gut Instinct. you knew what i was saying before i said it, you read it in your mind's eye. real Special country. you guys should probably do something about that.
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It sucks being a philosopher of mind and language when people who are not linguists or cognitive scientists start reblogging critiques of three-cueing. Not because I think it's a good method for most reading environments or because I think there is any good evidence to support it (I don't), but because every single goddamn post critiquing it also leaps to wild conclusions about other things to do with reading, language acquisition, and the mind in general.
Just a few things of note, off the top of my head:
Yes, you are a pattern-recogniser and that is how you read the vast majority of the time.
No, you do not read every single word precisely - there are acres of studies about this, tracking eye seccades as people read. Your eyes jump about on the page, they do not smoothly scan from one side to another. This is a fact. It was not made up to support three-cueing.
Yes, it's how LLMs work. LLMs were designed to mirror (on a very simplistic level) our brain processes and language learning processes. It's not an accident or an indictment; the LLMs are based on US.
It does not follow from this that LLMs understand what they receive as input - this requires more than pattern detection. Arguably, LLMs recognise nothing, they are just trained to spit out certain patterns in response to other patterns.
It also doesn't follow from the pattern recognition methods of experienced readers that we should teach new readers to read by three-cueing. This is something experienced readers do because they already know an incredibly vast number of words and this enables them to recognise the rough shapes of words at a glance - and is also why even professional proofreaders miss things sometimes, because they see roughly the right pattern of letters they expect and not necessarily the precise arrangement the symbols have on the actual page.
Bad reading comprehension is not new or limited to people who learned to read using three-cueing, as evidenced by all the people writing all these rants who appear to have missed the nuance in the words of the experts in the articles they themselves are linking to.
The biases you bring to reading a thing are much more likely to prejudice your understanding than the way you learned to read, even if it's also true that the way you learned to read did you no favours.
In short: you, too, are capable of pissing on the poor.
Today I tried to explain Three Cueing to my mother, a university professor. She seemed baffled by what the problem is, because these are methods (“tricks” and “shortcuts”) she uses and assumed everyone uses. She went on to say that this is why she doesn’t like reading humor, it’s so hard to deduce (guess) the words from context.
I guess this explains why she’s such a slow reader.
(I asked if she’d ever been diagnosed with dyslexia as a child and no, her father (a big fan of the ‘r’ slur (and the n-word and many other such terms)) wouldn’t allow her to be assessed for any learning disability.)
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