PROFESSOR Jim Conroy raises important issues concerning the teaching of reading and he rightly includes the need to foster "a lifelong engagement with the written word" ("Reading skills damaged by ...

Two sides of sound: Phonetics studies the physical production and perception of speech sounds, while phonology examines how those sounds function and are patterned in a language. Three phonetics ...

Phonetic reduction, which includes mumbled, sloppy or generally less articulated speech, also occurs in phrases that serve other social purposes, such as self-talk, expressing uncertainty or closing ...

Researchers developed a bimodal assessment framework combining oral and written sentence translation tasks to distinguish between phonetic and morphological errors in ...

Having children "sound out" words is not the best way to teach them to read, a new study says. A joint project by Victoria and Otago universities has found that learning through phonics, or "sounding ...