THE CASE FOR PHONICS (and other resources) IN SPAIN

Guest post by Dr Graeme Porte

Phonics teaching and phonics graded readers are an excellent way to help other parents in similar situations [to the one here], be they monolingual or bilingual themselves. It is really the only way to introduce such an oddly-written and pronounced language as English to L1 and L2 kids. Why on earth primary school teachers now frantically trying to teach kids…