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How Chinese Learners Decode L2 English Words: Evidence from a Phonics Instruction Program
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Li, Sha; Woore, Robert – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
The teaching of L2 phonics, defined here as explicit instruction in the symbol-sound correspondences of a second or foreign language, has been enjoying growing popularity in recent years. This is associated with the reemphasis of phonological decoding in different aspects of L2 learning, and learners' difficulty in developing L2 decoding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Decoding (Reading)
A Descriptive Study of Participant Perceptions of the Factors Contributing to Success or Failure of a Phonics Treatment Program
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Candace Duncan Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The study was conducted to describe how third graders, teachers, and interventionists perceive the influence of a phonics treatment program on the reading achievement of third-grade students in a school in the Western United States. The study was guided by the research questions on the perceptions of students, teachers, and interventionists on the…
Descriptors: Success, Failure, Phonics, Reading Programs
Decoding the Phonics Screening Check
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Darnell, Catherine A.; Solity, Jonathan E.; Wall, Helen – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
The statutory "phonics screening check" was introduced in 2012 and reflects the current emphasis in England on teaching early reading through systematic synthetic phonics. The check is intended to assess children's phonic abilities and their knowledge of 85 grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) through decoding 20 real words and 20…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decoding (Reading), Phonics, Beginning Reading
The Efficacy of Phonics-Based Instruction of English as a Second Language in an Italian High School: A Randomised Controlled Trial
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Coates, Robert Alexander Graham; Gorham, Judith; Nicholas, Richard – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
Recent neurological breakthroughs in our understanding of the Critical Period Hypothesis and prosody may suggest strategies on how phonics instruction could improve L2 language learning and in particular phoneme/grapheme decoding. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled-trial on the application of prosody and phonics techniques, to improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
The Importance of Flexibility of Pronunciation in Learning to Decode: A Training Study in Set for Variability
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Zipke, Marcy – First Language, 2016
The ability to flexibly approach the pronunciation of unknown words, or set "for variability", has been shown to contribute to word recognition skills. However, this is the first study that has attempted to teach students strategies for increasing their set for variability. Beginning readers (N = 15) were instructed to correct oral…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Control Groups, Spelling, Word Recognition
The Usefulness of Six Phonics Rules in Producing the Correct Pronunciation of Words in Trade Books and Reading, Science, and Social Studies Textbooks Used in the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grades. A Research Report.
Greif, Ivo P. – 1988
A study investigated the usefulness of six different but related phonics rules used to pronounce words. The phonics rules examined are: (1) When two vowels are adjacent, the long sound of the first vowel is pronounced and the second is not; (2) When two vowels are separated by one or more consonants and one of the vowels is a final e, the long…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonics