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Peer reviewedYlisto, Ingrid P. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Results of a study of early reading responses of young children in a Finnish preschool challenge the belief that grapheme-phoneme regularity is a critical factor in beginning reading. (JM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMaclean, Rod – Reading Teacher, 1988
Claims that even though teaching phonics is an effective method of reading instruction, the skills taught by phonics have little to do with the process of reading acquisition. Offers two methods of resolving the paradoxes generated by this situation. (NH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGoyen, Judith D. – Reading Teacher, 1989
Compares the phonetically regular orthography of Spanish with the phonetic inconsistencies of English. Reports on the role of phonics in six popular Spanish reading programs. Notes that the regularity of the Spanish language is compatible with the use of systematic phonics for reading instruction. (MM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction
