APA Dictionary of Psychology
phonics
- n.
- a method of teaching reading, popularly known as sounding out, that concentrates on the sounds of the letters or letter combinations in a word rather than on the word as a unit. The speaker or reader thus tries to match graphemes and phonemes. Also called phonic method. Compare whole-word method.
- a former name for acoustics.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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