This course flies in the face of more than 30 years of research into how the brain learns to read. The ability to read is not acquired "naturally" as spoken language is. The brain needs to repurpose certain regions in order to link speech sounds to symbols and to store words in order to be recognized instantly. Humans, whether adults or children, do not learn to read without some form of instruction. Some may intuit the sound-letter correlations (i.e. self-teach), but most need some instruction. Please don't waste your time with the course!

Lacks dynamism and variety of visual content, all the same person explaining concepts on video. The content is interesting itself.

I thoroughly enjoyed the course. Prof. Dom Massaro speaks of many real concepts which the world doesn't seem to give enough importance to yet. All throughout the course, I kept thinking I was fortunate to have come by 'Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally'.

I am not a pre-school or kindergarten teacher, although I do have interests in teaching someday. So almost everything in the course was new for me.

I think this course is a must for parents and anyone who wants to be a parent someday. And yes, a good course for care-takers of children as well, if not others.

I highly recommend this course to early childhood educators. It can change our perceptions regarding emphasis on written language for children's literacy. I also enjoyed reading and responding to the discussion forums provided in this study.

Interesting information, well presented, but I had different expectations - I wanted to have practical advises.

I didn't like to participate because the approach was not good enough.

lacks informative structure and new information

Now I have a vast acquisition in my career in children's psychology: I learned a lot of possibilities for the future of literacy I learned the foundation of children acquiring literacy, now I am capable of make propositions and enlarge the research to the potential early reading acquisition of the child.

It was a very interesting course that opened up my mind regarding early literacy in children. This new perspective could be a great start for further research on the topic.

I really enjoyed the information it was very informative and something that I can use in my personal and professional life.

Thank you for making this a free training!

I learned a lot from the course! Kudos!

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Thank you so much

Well organized but I wish I could get more know-how. What teachers and parents can do on daily life to help children acquire literacy naturally? This course talks more about theory not practical advice.

It was hard for me to follow the instructor. He spoke in monotone and broke paused in odd places .

I enjoy how accessible the videos are, from changing the transcript language, to speeding up or slowing down the video itself. Very good.

Some of the language made me tired. At times it could be complex and wordy. This made me feel that I missed chunks of what could've been more in depth learning/understanding.

Too much theory, no methodology for practical application really provided.

The course goes over some important background theory on early childhood language acquisition, but does not really present any practical methods/application of the theories, instead leaving it up to the learner to look online.

The Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally course, was fill with lots of information and guardian. However it needed to have more visual AIDS which would make it more excited and interested to the students. I thank my tutor and peers for helping me to becoming more knowledgeable in this area.

Only theory, interesting but with almost no practical advice

In this course I have understood in depth why Children can acquire literacy naturally. I can recognize in my experience and through the experiments carried out, children's abilities to learn spoken and written language, and technological advances that could make possible the natural acquisition of literacy, as early as possible. The course was of high scientific level, very interesting and entertaining.

As someone planning to write a children’s book, this course was incredibly insightful and valuable. It goes beyond the basics of literacy education and dives into how children actually develop literacy skills in real-life and natural environments.

I learned a lot in this course, not only the content that is actually taught, but also because this course leads you to reflect in your practices and invites you to be creative and adapt them to a better outcome.

As a language tutor, I found this very helpful in assisting my students: new points of focus and new creative ideas came from it. Thank you !

I found very useful, but I would like for you to had some real life excercices for the teachers to make wirh students, to motivate literacy

This course has helped me to understand different techniques to teach children and help them to acquire skills naturally.