Maria Rauschenberger was invited to the DAAD Project - COMIC "Teach the Teacher" in Cairo, Egypt and presented "Misconceptions, Neuromyths and Dyslexia" to teaching assistants.
4. How can we help people to learn in an
effective, efficient, attractive and
accessible way?
4
(Koper & Tattersall, 2005a)
5. Teaching depends on … right?
5
● Specific situation?
● Learning Design ?
● Learning types?
● Material ?
⇒ Is that correct?
(Koper & Tattersall, 2005b)
6. Research Findings and Misconceptions
6
● 49% teachers believed 49% of the neuromyths statements.
● 70% of the general knowledge statements were answered correctly.
● Possessing greater general knowledge about the brain does not appear to
protect teachers from believing in neuromyths.
⇒ This demonstrates the need for enhanced interdisciplinary communication
to reduce such misunderstandings in the future and establish a successful
collaboration between neuroscience and education.
(Dekker et al., 2012)
8. “Preferred Learning Styles / Learning types”
8
● It is the belief that individuals can benefit from receiving information in their
preferred format.
(Dekker et al., 2012)
9. “Preferred Learning Styles / Learning types”
9
● It is the belief that individuals can benefit from receiving information in their
preferred format.
Problem:
● No coherent framework of preferred learning styles
○ auditory, visual or kinesthetic learners based on self-reports.
○ 70 different models, e.g. “left vs. right brain,” “verbalisers vs. visualisers”
● No or only weak evidence on the effectiveness could be found. While
appropriated combining of material is more effective.
(Dekker et al., 2012)
10. Common Misconception 2017
10
The two most commonly endorsed neuromyths
across all groups were related to learning styles
and dyslexia.
(∼50% endorsement or higher)
(Macdonald, 2017)
11. Suggestion
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● Read popular science magazines not popular media.
● Explicit education for teachers about neuromyths
● Enhanced interdisciplinary communication to reduce
such misunderstandings.
(Dekker et al., 2012)
14. ● a specific learning disorder
● affects around 10% of the
population
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Dyslexia is not connected to how intelligent
a person is!
Dyslexia is ...
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The power of errors & language
● Amount of spelling and reading mistakes
● Dyslexia exists in different languages
● Second language & Dyslexia
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21. A. Collect Texts from Children
B. Do Error Classification
C. Do Error Annotation
1. Visual Features
2. Phonetic Features
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How to ...
http://goo.gl/LRaUDA
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A. German Texts from Children
● 47 texts from students
○ homework exercises, dictations, and school essays
● Over 1,000 written errors
● 8-17 years old
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B. Error Classification
– Substitution
– Capital Letter
– Insertion
– Omission
– Transposition
– Word boundary errors
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– Multi-errors
German specific:
Beginning of the word
should be written or
should not be written
with a capital letter
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B. Error Classification - Specific for German
Mistake Correct Translation
Capital
Letter
geschichten Geschichten stories
Wrong Capital
Letter
Glücklich glücklich happy
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C1. Error Annotation - Visual Features
Example
– Mirror letter <d> <b>
– Rotation <d> <p>
– Fuzzy letters <s> <z>
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C2. Error Annotation - Phonetic Features
– Sound distinction
– Sound sequence
– Combination of consonants
– Words with <v>
– Umlaut
– Double consonant / false
double consonant
– Lengthening
– Derivation
– Words with <s/ß>
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36. To sum up...
All reading and spelling tests need a
minimum knowledge of phonological awareness,
grammar, and vocabulary
of the child to predict risk of dyslexia
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37. Dyslexia is normally detected using linguistic elements.
That can only be possible when children have already developed
reading skills.
Is it possible to predict that a child may have dyslexia before
s/he develops reading skills?
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39. Other approaches
● With brain recordings for newborns (Guttorm et al., 2003)
● With rapid auditory cues for infants (Benasich, 2002)
● With the perception of visual-spatial attention for
kindergarten children (Franceschini, 2012)
⇒ Expensive approaches to predict future
language acquisition of pre-readers.
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40. ⇒ research on
gameful and easy
detection for
Pre-Readers
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(Rauschenberger et al. 2018)
(Rauschenberger et al. 2017)
43. Indicators
● Short-term memory difficulties
● Phonological memory / awareness
● Working memory
⇒ For Readers and Pre-Readers
DysMusic
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K. Overy. Dyslexia, Temporal Processing and Music: The
Potential of Music as an Early Learning Aid for Dyslexic
Children. Psychology of Music, 28(2):218–229, oct 2000.
R. F. Port, “Meter and speech,” J. Phon., vol. 31, pp.
599–611, 2003.
44. Indicators
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● Elements with similar features that represent
horizontal and vertical symmetries which are
known to be difficult for a person with dyslexia.
Example:
b, d, p, q (Rello et. al 2016c)
45. Goals
● Finding dyslexia pre-readers indicators related to music
● Integration of successful items in a game to predict and
intervene dyslexia
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M. Rauschenberger, L. Rello, R. Baeza-yates, E. Gomez, and J. P. Bigham, “Towards the Prediction of
Dyslexia by a Web-based Game with Musical Elements,” in W4A’17, 2017, pp. 4–7.
48. Tasks Related to Indicators
● Finding the same sound
● Distinguishing between sounds
● Short time interval perception, e.g.
short-time intervals
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Huss, M., Verney, J. P., Fosker, T., Mead, N., &
Goswami, U. (2011). Music, rhythm, rise time
perception and developmental dyslexia:
Perception of musical meter predicts reading and
phonology. Cortex, 47(6), 674–689.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2010.07.010
49. Example
● 4 tasks, each with 2 subtasks
● One subtask with 4 cards, the
other with 6 cards
● 4 different acoustic parameters
○ Frequency
○ Length
○ Rise Time
○ Rhythm
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Huss, M., Verney, J. P., Fosker, T., Mead, N., &
Goswami, U. (2011). Music, rhythm, rise time
perception and developmental dyslexia:
Perception of musical meter predicts reading and
phonology. Cortex, 47(6), 674–689.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2010.07.010
51. Study
● Within-subject design, counter-balanced
● Web-Application
● 178 participants in total
● 4 languages (Spanish,German, English & Catalan)
● Age range from 7 to 12 years
● 16 game rounds
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52. Participants
● 178 participants, all languages
○ 67 diagnosed of dyslexia (33f, 34m)
○ 111 in control group (67f, 44m)
○ Including: English (n= 6), Catalan (n= 7)
● 108 participants, Spanish
○ 41 diagnosed of dyslexia (23f, 18m)
○ 67 control group (42f, 25m)
● 57 participants, German
○ 17 diagnosed of dyslexia (5f, 12m)
○ 40 control group (21f, 19m)
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54. Significant Indicators for Spanish
● Musical
○ Total clicks
○ 4th click interval
○ 6th click interval
○ Duration
○ Average click time
☇ yet none for German
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● Visual
○ Total clicks
○ Time of first click
○ Hits
○ Misses
○ Accuracy
○ Efficiency
55. Significant Indicators for all languages
● Musical
○ Yet, none for music
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● Visual
○ Total clicks
○ Time of first click
○ Hits
○ Efficiency
With the same tendency
56. Visual Game Part
Spanish and German participants with dyslexia ...
● Click less time
● Take more time before they make the first click
● Have less hits
● Take more time for a hit
… compared to each language control group
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59. How you can support
a person with dyslexia
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(Rauschenberger et al., 2019)
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Suggestions for your students
● Use different spell checkers, e.g. Drive, Grammarly and Word Office.
● Use spell checkers specifically designed for a person with dyslexia e.g. Babel,
PoliSpell or RealCheck (Rauschenberger et al., 2019).
● Ask for proof reading.
● Organisational support, e.g. student contact/disability services, more time in an
examen
● British Dyslexia Assocation: https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/
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62. Font suggestions
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Fonts like
● Arial
● Courier
●
(Rauschenberger et al., 2019)
(Wery & Diliberto, 2017)
(Rello & Baeza-Yates, 2016b)
Font families like
● roman
● sans serif
● monospace
⇒ are suggested to increase readability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monospaced_font
63. Fonts features
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features like
● italics
● serfi
(Rauschenberger et al., 2019)
(British Dyslexia Association, 2018)
(Rello & Baeza-Yates, 2017)
(Rello & Baeza-Yates, 2016b)
⇒ are suggested to be avoided.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif
64. Background Color
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● Have an impact on the readability
(Rauschenberger et al., 2019)
(Rello & Bigham, 2017)
● warm background colors are beneficial for the
reading performance.
● Cool background colors decrease the readability.
65. Font Size ...
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● … has a significant effect on the readability and
the understandability of a text
⇒ Recommendation:
18-point font size
(Rello et al., 2013)
66. Various Guidelines
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● Dyslexia Style Guide 2018 (British Dyslexia Association, 2018)
● Making the Web Accessible (Web accessibility initiative (WAI), 2018)
● Web accessibility (de Santana et al., 2012)
● Design Guidelines (Miniukovich et al., 2017)
(Rauschenberger et al., 2019)
⇒ mainly with recommendations for
readability on the Web and digital devices.
68. Simplification on ...
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...typographical errors and not on
the complexity of the content.
⇒ specific difficulties with phonetically or
orthographically similar words or letters
(Rauschenberger et al., 2019)
(Rello et al., 2016c).
(Rauschenberger et a., 2016)
(Ellis, 1984)
69. Dictionary function
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● Look up words with a similar spelling e.g
● quiet vs. quit
● You have to send the later now
vs.
You have to send the letter not.
(Rauschenberger et al., 2019)
71. Real world errors...
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● are wrong in the context but are very
similar to another word from that language
● e.g.
German Schal (’scarf’) — Schall (’sound’)
Spanish pala (’shovel’) — palabra (’word’)
English from and form.
(Rauschenberger et al., 2019)
73. Summary
● Dyslexia is a specific learning disability.
● A person with dyslexia has difficulties in learning
how to read and write.
● Dyslexia is intelligence.
● A text written in Arial, 18 point font size and
with a warm background color increases the
readability and comprehension.
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