Arguments about how to teach initial reading are once more in the news. Proponents of “synthetic phonics” argue that there is only one effective way to teach a child to read. In this anniversary issue, it is worth taking a step back from the polarisation of the “synthetic” versus “analytic” phonics debate, to consider the evidence base for reading acquisition across languages. Most children wil...

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Acquisition of orthography is an important problem in German elementary schools. Today, few, if any, schoolbooks can claim to use knowledge of the deep syllable structure of German and its patterns for explicit orthography instruction. To fill this gap, a game described here allows children to explore the complete complexity of the German syllable patterns in analogy to phonics instruction used...

Empirical studies have shown that pre-service EFL teachers were not well prepared to teach phonics because they lacked a instructional guide. To develop the guide, required knowledge should include reference needs assessment at initial stage of design. This study aimed identify with which can phonics. A survey was issued 146 school who appointed as practicum supervisors from five full-fledged s...

Tse and Nicholson (2014) have tested a small-group instructional intervention that they propose as a modification to enhance reading progress among low attainment 6-year-olds in a “textcentered” teaching approach. The authors (T&N) cite a Ministry of Education (2003) handbook to describe this approach. It has four main components (pp. 91–101): (i) Teacher Reading of texts to listening children,...

Where American kindergartners are taught letters and letter sounds, German kindergartners are not; where American first and second graders receive an eclectic blend of whole language, whole word and phonics-based approaches, their German counterparts are taught by an intensive synthetic phonics approach. As a probe to the consequences of these pedagogical differences on the emergence of phoneme...