BENGALURU: When Tanuja watched her son, a kindergartner, struggling to read English she decided to enrol him for phonetics classes. “They would teach him the sound of each letter in the English ...

If your child has just started school, phonics expert Ann Sullivan shares her top tips for helping them at home ...

Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language(s) they hear, processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than nonnative ones. For example, between 6 to 8 mo and 10 ...

a first, second, or third language, English is used around the world for business, for the Internet and for making friends. For the past 2 1/2 years, I have been Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

I’m sharing my absolute favorite resources for teaching letters and sounds to preschool and kindergarten kids. These are the ...

Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That's because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic ...

This study explores whether emphasizing the phonetic components of kanji, Chinese characters used in Japanese, facilitates second language (L2) learners' novel character learning. Previous L2 studies ...