The ability to analyze a word into its component sounds is prerequisite to a child's learning of letter-sound correspondences and therefore to his learning to read. As prereaders do not typically master the ability to analyze a work into its component sounds, techniques must be developed to teach them this skill. Most procedures which have been…

While faulty articulation can usually be remedied by practice (imitation), faulty sound-perception calls for different teaching techniques, including presentation of correct versus incorrect sounds, minimal and contrastive pairs taken from vocabularies of first-year English textbooks. Drills are suggested, aimed at distinguishing similar sounds…

Discusses the use of structured exercises and the media to develop both selective and global listening skills in second language students. (AM)

A teaching strategy is outlined for coping with the phonological variability inherent in the nature of an ever-changing language. The basis for the strategy is an understanding of sound change in language and of the language level (as opposed to dialect level) goal of the student. (Author/RM)

It is asserted that the teacher and learner of a foreign language must learn to direct his attention to the auditory phenomena of the new language. Several auditory exercises in which some of the basic parameters of speech are involved--number, order, duration, pitch, vowel quality--are described. (RM)

Compares auditory/visual practice to visual/motor practice in spelling with seven elementary school learning-disabled students enrolled in a resource room setting. Finds that the auditory/visual practice was superior to the visual/motor practice on the weekly spelling performance for all seven students. (MG)

The acquisition of a correct pronunciation should be attempted at the earliest possible age. At the primary level, songs, rhymes and games are useful for teaching pronunciation. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Presenting minimal pairs in context to the student of English as a foreign language requires him to discriminate between two phonemes that may sound the same. Methodology for student exercises with minimal sentences is presented. (SW)

Dr. Gotkin has developed several ways to use effectively games and mechanical devices to teach language skills to preschool and kindergarten children. The matrix game, a set of pictures in columns and rows, which functions on the principles and methods of programed instruction, requires the child to discriminate symbols, pictures, and colors and…

A music program teaches auditory skills at an English school for mentally handicapped students. (Author/PHR)