Table of Contents

Introduction; How to use this book; Chapter 1: Why phonics for adults?; Chapter 2: Why does phonetics matter for phonics?; Chapter 3: The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) explained; Chapter 4: Phonetics - the basics; Chapter 5: Spelling and the Core Curriculum: Progression in phonics; Chapter 6: Reading and the Core Curriculum: Progression in phonics; Chapter 7: Does accent matter? Issues of different varieties of language; References; Glossary; Appendix 1: The International Phonetic Alphabet symbols; Appendix 2: The English phonemic alphabet; Appendix 3: Lists of phoneme-grapheme and grapheme-phoneme correspondences

About the Author

Maxine Burton, currently a visiting research associate at the Institute of Education, London, is an experienced adult literacy practitioner and trainer, and linguistics teacher. From 2002 her main research has been into adult learners' reading, and she has worked on several projects for NRDC at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of several handbooks for adult literacy practitioners.

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