Second half: the dog whistle politics of the anti-phonics lobby
The closing keynote talk at Thursday’s conference, ‘EAL: testing the limits of phonics’, given by Frank Monaghan, was nothing more nor less than a crude caricature of phonics. As a matter of fact, he never attempted to engage with the principles behind phonics teaching. Rather he posed as the scourge of educational psychologists, of the… Continue reading Second half: the dog whistle politics of the anti-phonics lobby