4. Chunking Chunking involves breaking down longer words into smaller parts, or “chunks,” to make them easier to read and understand. For example, the word “unbelievable” can be broken down into “un-” “be-” “liev-” and “-able.” By reading each chunk separately and then putti...
In second language (L2) acquisition, chunking is essential for attaining fluency and idiomaticity. In the present study, in order to examine whether chunks provide a processing advantage over non-chunks for L2 learners at different levels of proficiency, three groups(beginner, intermediate, and ...
They decide what is important and must remain in developer’s control, and what is not as important and could be abstracted away. I called this value judgment “an opinion” earlier in my writings. One way to view such a value judgment is as a bet: it is difficult to know ahead of t...
“All children are given endless hours of coaching in how to use the most common computer applications. Yet they are taught how to use these programs without being taught the most basic computing skill of all – typing. It is the modern-day equivalent of teaching a child to do joined-up ...
One cause comes from an abundance of novel information. More information than a person can process. But high cognitive load is also strongly influenced by the number of elements in working memory that interact with each other. Often, complex learning is based on interacting elements that must be...
And because of the way the forces of the aims and the means are facing each other, this process of chunking results in layering. Whether we want it or not, the layering will emerge in our code. Putting it another way, layering is the artifact of the limits of human capacity to hold ...
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“We don’t start walking up to an archaeology site and start chunking it with shovels; it’s a lot slower than that,” she said. Rachel Horowitz Rachel Horowitz at an excavation site in Arenal, Belize. The way Indy acquires objects is an example of exploitative colonialism. He remo...
Speed reading is a valuable skill that can help you consume more information in less time. Spend an hour learning speed reading techniques, such as chunking (grouping words together), skimming (quickly scanning for main ideas), and minimizing subvocalization (reducing the habit of “reading” ...
I thought they would be something students could complete in one assignment. After doing the work myself, however, I had helpful insights about how to make it more concise. Chunking each step and pairing it with a reading-related mini lesson was going to be more concise for students, more...