EDUCATION

Impacts of Teaching Phonics on Reading

Impacts of Teaching Phonics on Reading

Introduction

Reading education is a highly debated topic amongst educationists and researchers. Investigators come up with different questions regarding the learning to read process. Teaching reading to children with phonics approach also remains a controversial subject. Phonics is defined as a pedagogical approach to reading that operates by combining the letters ordered and limited sets of letters called syllables in written words, each representing a unit of pronunciation in spoken words of a human language. The child uses his knowledge of the canonical syllable structure to read the words never encountered before. This article will therefore examine the impacts of teaching phonics on reading abilities of children.

Thesis Statement

“The method of phonic regarding its effects came under much inspection which certainly shows its negative as well as positive effects”.

Problem Statement

Phonics practice is linked to the phonological awareness concept which is also a highly discussed topic, but conceptually it differs from the latter one. Phonemic awareness can be defined as the capability to identify and operate sounds that make up speech. Research has shown that phonemic awareness plays an essential role in the early stages of beginning reading in many languages. Numerous studies have found that phonemic awareness is one of the best predictors of reading ability in beginning hearing readers. It has even been proposed that phonemic awareness is a "necessary but not sufficient" skill for the acquisition of reading.

Discussion

Phonics

At the observation and analysis, phonics is defined as a pedagogical approach to reading that operates by combining the letters ordered and limited sets of letters called syllables in written words, each representing a unit of pronunciation in spoken words of a human language. The letters and syllables are two categories graphics units used to compose the written words of the language with which are constructed sentences and texts written communication and, consequently, to read these words in the reading activity. Phonics is the process that corresponds to the encryption (or encoding, which is the knowledge or the storage of alphabetic and syllabic units written words of the language) and decoding (or decoding, which is the recognition and identification alphabetic and syllabic units written words of the language) in reading and in subjacency, mode of functioning of the brain, thought and written in the field of language learning to read. It is the branch of linguistics, which studies the sound system of languages, compared to the physical articulation of language (phonics). Among the variety of sounds that can issue a speaker, it is possible to recognize those who represent the 'same' sound, though the ways of pronouncing is different from the acoustic point of view (Gimson, 2001, pp. 98-102).

Each time you issue a word, it is done the same way because each issue depends on the other sounds that surround it. The sounds take on different values depending on the role they occupy in a given context, but there are some features that do not ...