Linguistic Phonics
Education Philosophy, ESOL, In The News, Primary Education Friday, June 8th, 2007If you want an insight into how important accent and pronunciation are to learning, check out the latest research on teaching literacy to children.
Seems that we learn words based not on BBC English phonics but according to how we process words. No longer can we allow external assessment as this allows for socio-cultural inequality and regional margnalisation i.e. we fail exams as they are not written in our language but in the language of Others.