Phonics Rules. Topics in Early Reading Coherence [microform] / Sebastian Wren
- Bib ID:
- 5686264
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- Author:
- Wren, Sebastian
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2001
- 6 p.
- Summary:
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Some writing systems, like the traditional Chinese writing system, represent a whole word with a single symbol--writing systems like these are called logographies. To learn to read in a logography, students must memorize the whole symbol for each new word they learn to read. Learning to read a logography is a lifetime endeavor. Other writing systems represent word parts with symbols rather than representing whole words with symbols, such as Cherokee, where there are only about 65 unique syllables. Most languages of the world, however, like English, Spanish, German, etc., contain considerably more than 65 unique syllables, and the syllables do not follow a regular vowel-consonant pattern. In these languages, it is more efficient to use a symbol to represent the phoneme, and to assemble written words at the phonemic level. English, which has thousands of unique syllables, only contains between 39 and 47 phonemes. In Spanish, there is nearly perfect one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes. Spanish words sound the way they are spelled--this is what linguists call a "shallow orthography." English, however, does not have one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes, and is an example of a "deep orthography." A problem facing teachers is whether they should teach the rules of English pronunciation to children learning to read, given that there are exceptions to every rule. Children need to be taught that there is some consistency between the letters and the sounds, but that it is somewhat limited. Arguably the greatest weakness of phonics instruction is its dependence on explicit instruction of "feeble and abstract" rules. (NKA)
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