How psycholinguistic and neuroscientific knowledge can help literacy acquisition: The example of the Adult and Adolescent Literacy course of the online platform “LER”
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literacy acquisition, adult literacy, phonics methodAbstract
In this article, I will illustrate a literacy course structured according to two intermediate objectives: (i) the understanding and mastery of the alphabetic principle and (ii) the use of the orthographic code in the decoding (for reading) and encoding (for writing) of words. More specifically, I will illustrate the principles underlying that course, and how they were based on scientific data that helped us develop a version of the phonic method that we call “optimized”. I will also present a 12-point summary of the basic concepts and steps of literacy progression, based on these objectives and principles.
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