The first was that children learning phonics may have profited from the similarity of elements and mappings to be learned in the two languages.
We predict that standard scores on vocabulary will tend to be lowest, phonics scores highest, and other test scores intermediate.
He stated that there were problems with teaching reading through phonics but did not suggest a better method.
One might point out that there may exist circumstance specificity for learning of phonics or for the act of reading.
In inconsistent orthographies, reading instruction is usually a combination of sight-word training and phonics.
Auditory temporal perception, phonics, and reading disabilities in children.
If our reasoning about differences between the structural characteristics of vocabulary and phonics is correct, these conditions would be very unlikely ever to be met.
Partisans of whole language tend to draw their support from functional linguists, whereas adherents of phonics get it from formalists.
