New research has found that mnemonic images and explicit sound contrasting help Japanese children learn more effectively the sounds of the English alphabet.

They were taught English alphabet letter sounds, with or without the use of mnemonic images or explicit sound contrasting. The phonemes that correspond to 12 consonant letters were taught.

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They weren’t the only ones. Over a century ago, linguists had to develop an international phonetic alphabet to enable them to record particular sounds consistently from language to language.

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six cha… ...

When writing English we use the 26 letters of the alphabet. However, when speaking there are roughly 44 different sounds in English. If you're concentrating on the sounds of English, you need 44 ...

Discover the curious history behind this wacky and wonderful letter of the alphabet. Here's the real reason "W" is called "double U." ...

The alphabet and its order affect us every day and, in many ways, organize our lives, but how did the alphabet end up the way it is?