Initial Teaching Alphabet a Hundred Years Ago?
| Autor: | Paul D. Travers, Wallace Z. Ramsey |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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| Zdroj: | The Elementary School Journal. 74:274-279 |
| ISSN: | 1554-8279 0013-5984 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/460830 |
| Popis: | The Pitman Augmented Roman Alphabet, better known as the initial teaching alphabet, marks a highly fashionable, yet somewhat controversial trend in the teaching of reading. It has been reported that since 1960 the use of the initial teaching alphabet has been on the upswing in both England and the USA. The salient feature of this alphabet is that one letter represents only one English sound (1). Instead of the traditional twenty-six characters, the alphabet has forty-four characters, one for each English speech sound. The initial teaching alphabet, its advocates believe, makes reading less difficult. All words are spelled regularly, and consistent sound-symbol relationships are easily inferred. As Fries has noted, long before the resurgence of the initial teaching alphabet, many early attempts were made to modify the alphabet to improve reading instruction (2). One little-known but highly significant project was the introduction of the Leigh Phonetic Alphabet in St. Louis schools in 1866. For more |
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