ABSTRACT
Throughout this book, explicit phonics instruction has been advocated in order to help beginning readers learn the predictable consonant graphemeto-phoneme correspondences and contextual information in English writing so that they can develop probabilistic reasoning. This chapter adds that context is important for another type of reasoning useful for reading vowels in English with maximum effi ciency. Before going on to that, two phonics methodologies will be compared and contrasted. Finally, this chapter presents some ideas of how phonics information can be taught to ESL or EFL learners in the most effi cient way.
