rlelay ienrttsnieg

[hiphopopotamus]

I used this in my Teachers English class and it was a hit. Those who have studied lingustics or English seem to know of this. They told me the same thing works in Korean as well.

Can you read this:

Adcorcing to a rcseareh at Cadbrimge Unsveriity, it deosn't maettr in waht oedrr the letrets in a wrod are. The olny itpormant tihng is taht the fsrit and lsat letetr be in the rhgit palce.

The rset can be a toatl mses and you can stlil raed it wothiut pborlem. Tihs is becasue the huamn mnid deos not raed eevry letter by ilsetf, but the wrod as a wlohe.



--Brian


The scrambler site is here to generate your own: http://www.jtnimoy.net/itp/cambscramb/

[weirdgirlinkorea]

This is awesome! But do you think it works with non native speakers? It would seem they might actually try breaking it down or try to unscramble it.

[hiphopopotamus]

It did work. That's what I'm saying. I used it in my Teachers English class. This is the after-school class for native Koreans who want to improve their English. It was a nice ice breaker. One girl had heard of it before and said she's seen the same thing in the Korean language.

[WorkingTitle3484]

I have a small time filler called Scramble where students have to do this.  They really enjoy it.
For example, griet = tiger; manyreg = Germany

[dwebsterlfc]

That's interesting. It's bizarre how we can actually read that at pretty much full pace.

I'll give it a crack with my co-teachers.

Cheers

[suzettec]

I saw this study and it was interesting.  But it did say that not everybody could read it.  The percentage of people that could was around 80 I think.  I don't remember but it is pretty interesting and we might be able to use this with our students with getting them to read.  Just a thought.

[Max]

My students were very impressed that they could read it!

[mowchy]

I used this in my Teachers English class and it was a hit. Those who have studied lingustics or English seem to know of this. They told me the same thing works in Korean as well.

Can you read this:

Adcorcing to a rcseareh at Cadbrimge Unsveriity, it deosn't maettr in waht oedrr the letrets in a wrod are. The olny itpormant tihng is taht the fsrit and lsat letetr be in the rhgit palce.

The rset can be a toatl mses and you can stlil raed it wothiut pborlem. Tihs is becasue the huamn mnid deos not raed eevry letter by ilsetf, but the wrod as a wlohe.



--Brian
Random question, did you copy and paste that text or have to re-type it here? The site didn't let me copy/paste the scrambled text but wasn't sure if there was another way.


The scrambler site is here to generate your own: http://www.jtnimoy.net/itp/cambscramb/

[makeshiftb0y]

I used this in my Teachers English class and it was a hit. Those who have studied lingustics or English seem to know of this. They told me the same thing works in Korean as well.

Can you read this:

Adcorcing to a rcseareh at Cadbrimge Unsveriity, it deosn't maettr in waht oedrr the letrets in a wrod are. The olny itpormant tihng is taht the fsrit and lsat letetr be in the rhgit palce.

The rset can be a toatl mses and you can stlil raed it wothiut pborlem. Tihs is becasue the huamn mnid deos not raed eevry letter by ilsetf, but the wrod as a wlohe.



--Brian


The scrambler site is here to generate your own: http://www.jtnimoy.net/itp/cambscramb/

Not just this, but we also use syntactic and semantic clues; we use graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cueing systems when we read--at least good readers do. Someone mentioned that only 80% of people can read that. Perhaps the other 20% are overrelying on the graphophonic cueing system.

[pusher]

What are you going on about??

[leo fuchigami]

if you want to take it up a notch, try teaching them text message english. i did a lesson on a while back. very popular.

it's 2 l8 2day 4 me 2 learn english.

develop a lesson around how to decipher text message english.
-broken grammar rules
-read numbers and letters phonetically to complete words
-acronyms e.g. lol
-symbol usage e.g. *$ = starbucks

[Agent 99]

I have a feeling this might work with any language because of the simple nature of it.  The brain "identifies" each word, rather than "reading" each letter and then forming a word within a nano-second in the mind--It identifies the first and last letter/ sound and then extrapilates (?) the rest...producing understandable concepts...the brain is a wonderful thing!!