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 ...

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 ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What should I do to make my English Language Learners want to learn good pronunciation? And how do I correct students’ pronunciation without hurting their feeling or ...

Want to sound more natural when speaking English? In this lesson, you’ll learn how native speakers pronounce American English ...

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 ...

"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

LAHORE: The Dawn in Education Spelling Bee Phonetics Workshop educated some 240 teachers from more than 100 schools across Punjab about the usage of phonetics and the methods to teach students ...