I enthusiastically uphold Steven Larsen’s informative letter on phonics (Voice, March 29). For years I have taught reading to children and adults, always using the phonetic method. It is exciting to ...

Learning English language through reading and writing in elementary classes is soon going to be history as most of the schools in the city are soon catching up with the trend of teaching the language ...

Annapurna Mohan, who follows the phonetics method of teaching English, shudders to think what will befall her students when they are sucked back into the regular education system. M Pushpa is a class ...

Dutch researcher Patti Adank has shown that differences in the pronunciation of Dutch vowels can be mapped semi-automatically. During her doctoral research, Adank designed an automated expert listener ...

THOMAS P. HUGHES, LL. D. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, ...

One of the biggest hurdles for foreigners in Hong Kong is communicating with the locals. With words spelt out as Tsim Sha Tsui, it is no wonder they do not know how to correctly pronouncing it in a ...