Learning to read in most alphabetic orthographies requires not only the acquisition of simple grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) but also the acquisition of context-sensitive GPCs, where ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Zerina Kicic marched in place and her first grade students followed her lead. Sound-by-sound, piece-by-piece, she taught her students how to sound out 'fish.' Fish is four letters.

New readers who focus on sounding out letters rather than learning whole words tap into that part of the human brain best wired for developing reading skills. The phonics approach to teaching reading ...

Today, after spending two weeks on Punjabi and its writing system Gurmukhi, it’s time to have a little look at some of the terms I have thrown around in those blogs. Off There are many different ...

Previous studies report that learning new words is helped when supplemented with written forms, but only if grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) mappings are the same (congruent) as the learners’ ...

This theoretical position article presents the current state of the research on college-aged Spanish heritage language learners’ (HL) spelling as well as the limitations of a descriptive approach to ...