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Hannah Ward 👩🏻🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer @HannahWardEdu
On Dec 21 Hannah tweeted the following:
I've experienced this as a rule: rich kids abroad who are learning English as a second language read, write, and speak FAR better than native English-speaking kids in the USA because they're taught using phonics, direct instruction, and classic read alouds. It's embarrassing.
I responded as follows:
I beg to disagree. It has nothing to do with phonics. A lot of reading could be a good reason but never phonics.
Hannah Ward asked:
Why do you think it has nothing to do with phonics? What is that based on?
That hasn't been my experience as an international TESOL teacher working with students on every continent but Antarctica.
I answered:
It is based on my research from 2004 to 2019 to find out why many intelligent kids who can read in Malay and Pinyin can't read in English.
Do you know of any one school that teaches phonics that has close to 100% of kids who can read at grade level?
Did you ever question yourself why many of these intelligent kids can't read in English?
Have you ever interviewed kids who could not read but were able to read after a short period of intervention as to why they were unable to read in the first place? I have.
As a ‘learning designer,’ why would she block me simply for answering her?
This has been my story since 2010: whenever I respond to questions or raise them myself, I get blocked. If those who claim to design learning refuse to engage in open discussion, how will we ever reduce illiteracy? Progress cannot come from silence or avoidance — it comes from dialogue, evidence, and the courage to confront uncomfortable truths.
2 comments:
Not one mention by either about the well-known 200,000 phono-illogical errors in the system that obviously are a major cause of the failures. Ofc, Michel will boast about his magical results teaching one-on-one for weeks. But he admits that not even him can have learners decode all English words in weeks like Spanish-speaking learners can with normal teaching of 20 or more students to boot. The French fixed theirs a bit lately and game-changer did NOT force current users to relearn or use the new spellings. More info @ https://x.com/PeterDMayr/status/1766996137787961659?t=qacElWWTgjVSpo_jgoPIAg&s=19
Thank you for your comment Peter. 'But he admits that not even him can have learners decode all English words in weeks like Spanish-speaking learners can with normal teaching of 20 or more students to boot.'
This is not the issue Peter. I have said the same thing about Malay. Kids have no problem reading in Malay as all letters except the letter 'e' represent only one sound.
The English spelling system is complicated but what can you or I do about it?
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