Re: Letters with **three** cases?



Nigel Greenwood wrote:
> Seán O'Leathlóbhair wrote:
> > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > > Nigel Greenwood wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps because it turned out that the victims of ita
> >
> > I can add anecdotal support. One of my friends is clever but a poor
> > speller, he even had embarrassing spelling mistakes in his PhD thesis.
> > He blames this on having been subjected to ITA as a child.
>
> Well, yes, perhaps: ... "victims" ... "subjected to" ... Seán's
> friend is hardly a controlled study (might have been an even worse
> speller with conventional learning, for example).

I was not claiming that it was a controlled study. My only claim was
that I have friend who blames his poor spelling on having been taught
using ITA. I think "subjected to" is how he phrases it but I am not
certain of that point. His phrasing is certainly negative. He does
not say: "Despite the benefit of having been taught using ITA, I am
still a bad speller". Of course, maybe he would have been a bad
speller however he was taught and the ITA is just a handy excuse. If
he did not have it as an excuse, he may have claimed dyslexia.

Are you aware of a controlled study or why ITA has fallen from favour?
I did look on the web once and found some people still using it.

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