Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
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>>Learning writing top-down, content before form, is a very powerful
>>technique with all human beings.
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> "Top-down" looks suspiciously like the French "méthode globale" which has been
> used since my generation to teach writing to children. If it's the same, then I
> really can't agree with you.
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But isn't Standard Written French incredibly different from Modern
Spoken French? Don't you have extra things like 'ne' in your writing
which you don't have in speech? Could that kind of a thing have an
effect on learning? (Is there a French netspeek, something like this
topic was originally about in English? Are the people who are
'illiterate' able to read/write it? Or do they not understand what an A is?)

Also, could someone explain better the 'top-down' and 'bottom-up'
approaches to learning reading and writing? I'm not sure I understand.

Tristan.

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