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    Phonics refers to teaching beginning readers the relationship between letters and sounds to help with reading, spelling, and pronunciation. In an English first language context, phonics helps readers recognize familiar words and decode unfamiliar ones. In an English foreign language context, phonics focuses more on pronunciation and building the ability to connect letters with sounds. Phonics should be taught starting in primary school to help students develop strategies for spelling and pronunciation early on, and it continues into junior secondary school to consolidate and expand these skills.

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    Phonics refers to teaching beginning readers the relationship between letters and sounds to help with reading, spelling, and pronunciation. In an English first language context, phonics helps readers recognize familiar words and decode unfamiliar ones. In an English foreign language context, phonics focuses more on pronunciation and building the ability to connect letters with sounds. Phonics should be taught starting in primary school to help students develop strategies for spelling and pronunciation early on, and it continues into junior secondary school to consolidate and expand these skills.

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    Phonics refers to teaching beginning readers the relationship between letters and sounds to help with reading, spelling, and pronunciation. In an English first language context, phonics helps readers recognize familiar words and decode unfamiliar ones. In an English foreign language context, phonics focuses more on pronunciation and building the ability to connect letters with sounds. Phonics should be taught starting in primary school to help students develop strategies for spelling and pronunciation early on, and it continues into junior secondary school to consolidate and expand these skills.

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    1. What is phonics?

    Before reading about what phonics is, consider what you know about phonics by
    completing the activity below:
    What is phonics in the
    (i) English-as-a-first-language (L1) context?
    (ii) English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) context?
    Choose the best option(s) for the following questions.

    English-as-a-

    English-as-a-

    first-language (L1)

    foreign-language

    context

    (EFL)
    context

    A.

    B.

    Phonics usually refers to a

    listening skills

    listening skills

    useful learning and teaching

    speaking skills

    speaking skills

    strategy in the development of

    reading skills

    reading skills

    students

    writing skills

    writing skills

    Phonics includes the learning

    basic letter-

    basic letter-

    and teaching of

    sound

    sound

    relationships

    relationships

    phonetic

    symbols

    C.

    Phonics enhances students

    phonetic symbols
    (e.g. IPA)

    (e.g. IPA)

    spelling rules

    spelling rules

    dictionary skills

    dictionary skills

    spelling skills

    spelling skills

    pronunciation

    pronunciation

    dictionary skills

    dictionary skills

    vocabulary

    vocabulary

    building skills

    building skills

    In the context of learning English as a first language (L1), phonics is a method to

    teach beginner readers how to recognise the different sounds represented by letters.
    By applying this understanding, these readers become literate as they learn how to
    recognise and pronounce familiar printed words, correctly decode those unfamiliar
    ones and spell English words accurately. As their phonics skills develop, so do their
    abilities to recognise words effortlessly and automatically, which enable them to
    transfer their attention to the meaning of the text.

    In the EFL context, phonics may take on a different role. Learners who learn English
    as a foreign language are exposed to far less natural English language input every
    day than their English-as-L1 counterparts. Before learning to read, these learners
    also have a much smaller aural-semantic repertoire to help them recognise a word
    when they hear it. Phonics can therefore be regarded predominantly as a strategy in
    the learning and teaching of pronunciation of English words, with an aim to build
    learners abilities to understand the relationships between letters and sounds and to
    apply the knowledge in reading aloud and spelling.
    2. Why should phonics be taught?
    The learning and teaching of phonics should normally start at primary level. This is
    to help learners build up strategies for pronunciation and spelling as early as
    possible. For this reason, at primary level, a schools General English programme
    and Reading Workshops are reckoned to provide a good setting to incorporate the
    learning and teaching of phonics for the development of the following:

    learners knowledge about the relationships between letters/combinations of


    letters and their sounds;

    learners ability to recognise the individual letter-sound correspondence and


    blend the sounds into the word as it is read aloud (i.e. decoding); and

    learners ability to break up words they hear into individual sounds for spelling
    (i.e. encoding).

    At junior secondary level, the emphasis shifts to consolidating and extending the
    phonics knowledge and skills developed at primary level, based on an informed
    understanding of what letter sounds are likely to cause difficulties to learners in
    spelling, pronunciation and reading. A more detailed discussion of phonics focuses at
    junior secondary level will be presented in Section 5 of this part.

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