“Today’s episode champions the overlooked work of Soviet psychologists Vygotsky, Luria, and Leontiev, asserting they identified gestalt language processing (GLP) decades before the West. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that Cold War politics suppressed this research, leading to a dominant, yet flawed, phonics-driven literacy model that disadvantages GLPs. By reclaiming these Soviet insights, Dr. Hoerricks aims to reframe our understanding of language acquisition and challenge the Western educational status quo, advocating for the recognition of diverse learning styles.”

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-forgotten-science-of-language

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