Our thanks to Heidi Hyte, ESL Specialist, for her outstanding webinar, Why Phonics for ELL’s?
If you missed this extremely educational presentation, packed with reading strategies for ELL students, don’t worry, we’ve provided a quick synopsis and a link to the recorded version of the webinar here.
“With increasing global migration, adults from regions of the world with high levels of illiteracy are moving to the United States and learning to read and write in English, their second (if not third, fourth, or fifth) language.” – Vinogradov, P. and Bigelow, M. (2010)
- Reading is a complex process. It involves both top-down and bottom-up processes.
- Phonics equals bottom-up strategies. While much of second language reading exhibits a strongly top-down bias.
- The best readers are those who use both top-down and bottom-up processes concurrently. This is called interactive reading.
“With a strong foundation in bottom-up skills, beginning level readers will become more proficient readers, more quickly.” – Dr. Neil Anderson, Former TESOL President
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