alphabetics
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]alphabetics (uncountable)
- (dated) The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.
- 1870 October, C. E. Aprague, “Visible Speech”, in The American Educational Monthly, volume 7, page 413:
- As the English race has sinned most in the matter of bad spelling and an incomplete alphabet, so it ought to take the lead in restoring the science of alphabetics to a form which shall be perfectly and completely phonographic.
- 1874, Alexander John Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, page 992:
- The examinations of living Indian pronunciation (pp. 1136-1140), though merely elementary, together with the account of ancient Indian alphabetics as collected, through Prof. Whitney's translation, from the Atharva Veda Prâtiçâkhya (pp. 1336-1338), may also prove of use in Aryan philology.
- 1874, American Annals of the Deaf: 1874 - Volume 19, page 69:
- If, therefore, Mr. Bell, instead of trying the (so far as time and labor are concerned) costly experiment of Visible Speech on the poor deaf-mute, would make it his task to propagate among American teachers of articulation the philosophy of English alphabetics, which his father described in the work from which the above passage is cited, he would do far better service to the cause in which he is enlisted.
- The study of the alphabet, the sounds associated with each letter, and the construction of written words.
- 2002, John Kruidenier, Research-based Principles for Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction, page 48:
- Almost all of the studies with results related to alphabetics were conducted with adult non-readers or beginning readers and none compared the effects of alphabetics instruction across reading levels.
- 2012, Barbara H. Wasik, Handbook of Family Literacy, page 187:
- Direct and explicit instruction in alphabetics involves systematically teaching students how to manipulate the sounds in words, develop their knowledge of letter-sound relationships, and apply this knowledge to reading words.
- 2021, Heidi Anne E. Mesmer, Alphabetics for Emerging Learners, page 1:
- We have worked out the essentials of teaching alphabetics in the remaining chapters in the book.
- plural of alphabetic