Juncture phonemes are very important sound structures in applied phonetics and phonology. Therefore, they must be taught properly to so that non-native students of English language can master the spoken form of the target language. In phonetics, they are the features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a beginning, word boundary, ups and…

Two studies compare phonology-based instructional strategies designed for improving spelling skills of elementary school children against instruction strategies that rely only on visual exposure of words. In both studies, posttests showed that children taught through psycholinguistic and phoneme awareness methods significantly outperformed the…

This study reports the effectiveness of a three-pronged (segmentation, phonological neighbor cues, and rehearsal) phonologically based strategy designed to reduce word finding errors of two third-graders. Results indicated an improvement in word finding in single-word contexts that was generalized to sentences and maintained during follow-up.…

A 13-year-old student with spelling difficulties was involved in an intensive group intervention program that focused on increasing foundational skills for spelling and on oral word-level reading. Assessment results led to a successful intervention program targeting phonemic and morphological awareness skills and orthographic knowledge. (Contains…

A study investigated how phonemic-awareness research and intervention knowledge was successfully translated for teacher implementation in two kindergarten classes (n=27) over three years. Research-validated strategies were first identified, the research was translated into teacher friendly materials/procedures, teachers participated in choosing…