I think though that other processes are at work too for example as we monitor our comprehension and seek to clarify comprehension difficulties .Although we can ask speakers to repeat we can reread more often than we would ask people to repeat .
"If you're a fluent decoder, written language is very similar to spoken language in terms of comprehension." Well said. Writing is not magic. If I can understand your oral sentences about computer programming, I will be able to understand those same sentences if you choose to encode them via our shared writing system. If not, not.
Fantastic talk . "Listening comprehension needs to be practiced so that reading comprehension can improve".Excellent advice.
I think though that other processes are at work too for example as we monitor our comprehension and seek to clarify comprehension difficulties .Although we can ask speakers to repeat we can reread more often than we would ask people to repeat .
"If you're a fluent decoder, written language is very similar to spoken language in terms of comprehension." Well said. Writing is not magic. If I can understand your oral sentences about computer programming, I will be able to understand those same sentences if you choose to encode them via our shared writing system. If not, not.
Whatever possessed you to film that in portrait orientation?
Landscape showed some stuff in my office I didn't really want to show (to my left) :P
I suspect it's only those of us over a certain age that find ourselves needlessly distracted by the orientation.