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abcd
Purpose: To show a literal representation of text with
sound.Method: Animate text to an instructional language tape. Results: See "abcd" animation. Conclusion: As expected, this presentation is slow and repetitive. A predictable presentation of the facts. Surprisingly the static text and dry speech instill truth. Every word, letter, colour and musical note feel truthful, even when the competing information such as English and Spanish pronunciations is presented. The capability text and voice to inspire trust means that we cannot lead children astray: pronunciation and spelling must be accurate. It also means that text-voice animation can be presented as memory game. (in DVD format) . If you look at the "abcd" animation closely you will find a potential structure for a DVD memory game. After one viewing of the animation can you remember and write down the sounds associated with each symbol? How well did you do? Would a child fair better?
line one: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 This line sets up the expectation of a straight forward literal progression of numbers, and that is exactly what happens. line two: E G B V F A C E What follows in line two is not “A B C D E F G” as expected but rather E G B V F A C E. In spite of the fact that there is no pattern a confidence remains that an order does exist. (I didn't realize that the word face was spelled out the first time I saw it.) line three:.... When learning to read we are expected to recall complex sounds and match these sounds to symbols. If we consider a collection of musical notes, to be sounds and a collection of coloured circles to be symbols, could we read this just like an alphabet?. Try recalling the notes that were associated with each colour in this animation ”abcd” Would this be easier for a child to do? I imagine that a child, would find this challenge to be as straight forward and acceptable as the previous examples of letters. line four: so ti ra fa sa la do me Musical note names are spoken, out of sequence, without tonality, in Spanish, by a female speaker with one mistake (“sa”). line five: ......... More colours with musical notes. line six: a b c d e f g Alphabetical order, and presentation. line seven: a b c d e f g Alphabetical order, repeated in Spanish by a female speaker. More research is needed in this "memory game" area of study especially with nonlinear learning use of a DVD. |