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'Time-limited' teaching of phonics · Alexandre Borovik · i.t.a. · Susan Godsland

Borovik backs phonics

January 8, 2011 John

In his ‘Personal take on synthetic phonics’, Alexandre V. Borovik sheds some interesting light on how, as a child, he learned to read in Russian, which is written in Cyrillic script, an alphabet writing system. What most interested me about the article was how one day, as a young boy, Borovik, while ‘sitting in a… Continue reading Borovik backs phonics

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