• ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I love how someone who knows what they’re talking about gets downvoted here. Don’t you know you’re just wrong and should keep your facts to yourself?! 🤦‍♂️

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      4 months ago

      Linguists aren’t behavioral psychologists or K-12 educators. Being challenged by unfamiliar language is an incredibly important experience in developing reading comprehension. It’s not that a bigger vocabulary makes you smarter, it’s that the process of understanding more complex language helps you both understand and formulate more complex ideas.

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        4 months ago

        If you can’t understand something, you don’t get challenged, you just skip it. You need to be getting 98%-99% of the text to gain something from reading it