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Q: John, is it possible to have the warnings removed from the "Synthetic phonics" page. I have cleaned it up, added references and added three countries for the "global outlook", so it should meet standards now. I will, however, add New Zealand and Canada very soon. I am just concerned that searchers will not accept this page as credible even though I am confident that it is factual.

A: There is a Wikilink to the essay giving advice about cleanup tags is at the top of Template messages/Cleanup. That essay discusses several aspects of the practice of tagging pages for problems, constructive tagging, removing tags, disputes and over-tagging. One of my pet peeves is "drive-by tagging." "Adding and removing tags for non-obvious problems without discussion is not helpful. It can be disruptive and is derided as "drive-by tagging" when done by editors who are not involved in the article's development." I would include adding or removing tags without making an entry on the talk page.

By my definition the tags on Synthetic phonics are "drive-by" tags. However, removing them without comment is "drive-by" taggging also.

If you have made a good faith effort to fix the problems described in the cleanup tags and briefly state your reasoning on the talk page, it may not be the end of the conversation. But, it is a good beginning! &mdash; John Harvey, Wizened Web Wizard Wannabe , Talk to me! 15:29, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

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I'm glad to see that you added your comment to the Synthetic phonics talk page. I have moved your comment to a  new section  at the end of the page. Also, you need to  sign , ~, your talk page entries so other editors can correctly address their comments. See Help:Using_talk_pages &mdash; John Harvey, Wizened Web Wizard Wannabe , Talk to me! 13:28, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Coming on this article, I think its essentially an essay devoted to proving a particular point of view. I've made further comments there. I'm no expert in this, but i think the entire set of articles would benefit from a more systematic approach. I think also it is not a good approach to unnecessarily split articles, all of which will have the same POV problems. (I therefore redirected Systematic Phonics). It would be better to get the existing articles cleaned up first.  DGG ( talk ) 04:12, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

A note regarding original research
Hello! I noticed this edit, where you replaced a direct quote with an interpretation. This is covered by our policy regarding no original research, which states that Wikipedia editors should not attempt to make an interpretation that is not directly supported by reliable sources. For example, your replacement of the term "calls for" with "appears to recommend" alters the meaning of the phrase: "appears to recommend" is a personal interpretation that additionally softens the impact of the phrase. The source used in this case is a primary source, which are particularly susceptible to this kind of problem. It would be best if the claims made in this paragraph were attributed to a reliable secondary source, so that there is no question of personal interpretation. Regards, Orange Suede Sofa  (talk) 03:10, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

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Hi, John. I'm John too, and I decided when I was about 12 that I'd never name my son that. I was quite tired of looking to see who wasn't talking to me by that time. Ironically my only son is 8 now, and 52 years after I turned 12, John isn't nearly as common. Anyway....I've never used a custom signature and frankly fail to see any purpose for them, but if I recall correctly, one of the restrictions is it can't be disruptive or confusing. As we have an apparantly retired, but once quite active editor, I'd think your signature would be considered minimally confusing, if not disruptive. You may wish to modify your signature somehow, such as adding an initial. Thanks, and happy editing. John from Idegon (talk) 04:47, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you John. I was unaware of this, so I have added initials to my signature. Thanks for the suggestion. John NH (talk) 10:29, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

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Phonics
Hello. You sort of reverted my edit to phonics, so I thought I would ask for clarification. I will write some more on the talk page, and I would be grateful for responses. I see "phonics" as a rather curious business: one meaning is something like the mapping from written symbols to speech, which sounds like linguistics, but in practice evidence suggests that the field of linguistics really does not talk about "phonics". The second meaning is from the field of education, meaning an approach to teaching (English) reading involving systematic teaching of how spoken words are built of consonants and vowels, and so on, as opposed to the other "method" of teaching called "whole language" or "look and say", which eschews any sort of systematic explanation in the belief (not obviously supported by evidence) that children do not need such explanation. This is all very vague, so in some sense you could say that "phonics" could be used to teach the reading of any language, if there is any element of systematic explanation. So I do not see any principled way to limit this to languages "using an alphabet". Why not a language with a syllabic writing system such as Japanese, or even a non-phonological writing such as Chinese, insofar as there are systematic pronunciation hints built into many characters. At the same time, in practice, 99.99% of references to "phonics" are about teaching English. Your (restored?) cite for Russian merely says that the policy is to spend time explaining how Russian words are built from consonants and vowels, with nothing specifically resembling "phonics". The Arabic text is a proposal for helping Arabic speakers with learning difficulties to "decode"(?) the Arabic alphabet, and the authors merely assert that "phonics" could help, but disarmingly say that their proposal needs testing in the field. Both references are rather tenuous, it seems to me. Imaginatorium (talk) 18:57, 9 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, my name is John. Thank you for your input. It is very valuable.
 * Yes, most of this article is about how phonics is used to teach reading in English. However, because phonics is used to teach reading in non-English speaking countries, there is a section for that - Phonics.
 * With respect to using phonics to teach reading in the Russian language, the reference says "The method widely used now to teach reading was developed by the famous psychologist Daniil Elkonin in the 1960s. The method is based on the premise that before studying the letters of the Russian alphabet, preparatory work is necessary whereby children are taught to orient themselves in the phonetic system of the Russian language. Students learn to define the sequence of sounds in a word and characterize each sound, such as vowel/consonant or hardness/softness of consonants. By acquiring the knowledge of the phonetic system at an early stage, it is believed that children become better familiarized with the skills of reading."
 * Since the reference only proposes a method to use phonics to teach Arabic, and I don't have a good reference beyond that, I will remove that example.
 * I don't know if phonics is used to teach reading in Japanese or Chinese. I suspect reading is taught in these languages by memorization, but I welcome your opinion, especially if you can point me in the direction of a good reference.
 * Thanks, again. John NH (talk) 20:46, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. (Sorry, I forgot to 'watch'.) Somewhat uncollected thoughts...
 * I looked at the article again, and actually I see there is a similar debate in France, which is what you would expect. But looking at the other "countries": exactly half (9/18) are English-speaking. For the rest, overwhelmingly the actual connection to the "phonics" of "teaching English" is tenuous. Portugal for example: the text is vague in the extreme, nothing specific at all about how reading is taught. My point basically is that in English, and in French (wild outliers in the global scheme of things, I think) there is a huge job caused by the absence of a simple direct mapping from letters to sounds, and "phonics" vs "whole language" is an educational debate about how to handle this job (it seems obvious that actually "whole language" is bogus). In other languages, there simply can be no such debate; Japanese is a particular example I know more about (my third son is a Japanese primary school teacher), in which beginning reading uses the syllabic kana system; you show the kids how to read each of the 50 characters, and they string them together. But in any of the cited languages which are alphabetic, Italian for example. there is an almost one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds, plus some special rules about 'c' and 'g' before front and back vowels. There is no coherent distinction between reading 'venticinque' by seeing that it spells 'v-e-n-t-i-ci-n-qu-e' or looking at it and recognising 'venticinque' as a whole, because it of course spells 'v-e-n-t-i-ci-n-qu-e'. Compare 'fate' or 'rough', where we cannot actually say which letter even makes which sound. And I cannot see any principled way to claim that it is the use of an "alphabet" which determines whether or not "phonics" can be used. For example, in Japanese, presumably there will be children with reading difficulties, who learn あ(a), か(ka), and さ(sa), but cannot see that あかさか spells 'Akasaka' (even though you can, now). They need the same help as an Italian child who knows how to read 'c'(before 'i'), 'i', 'n', and so on, but cannot see that 'cinque' spells (five). (Then you can consider whether Korean hangul is an alphabet or not.) That sort of deals with my objection to the sentence about "using an alphabet".
 * My reaction was also partly simple (genuine) disappointment. I could not understand any more about the "phonics" debate after reading the article than I could before. And I found the bit about the separate article for "synthetic phonics" for the English (adj. 'of England'; Scotland is separate) case. The problem is that once separated into it own article, there is no comparison between the two (or more?) different sorts of phonics, and one learns nothing. (This is a very general WP problem: instead of an article illuminating the constrast between two alternative ideas, you get an article on each, so vague that they could be interchanged without anyone noticing.) The reference given to Literacy trust gives in two paragraphs more explanation than the entire WP article. I think the "phonics" article should outline the relevant distinction (and mention analytical phonics, "popular in Scotland").
 * The article starts out by making it look as though "phonics" is really a term in linguistics, rather than a much more parochial term in education as I believe. (In general, I don't think linguistics talks about phonics at all.) For example, an essay "Phonicsphobia" by Joyce Morris in Spelling society gives the following definition:
 * 'Phonics' [covers] all methods and materials designed to develop initial literacy in English by highlighting its major spelling patterns, and by making explicit the relationships between speech sounds (phonemes) and graphic symbols (graphemes).
 * I think that would be a much better place to start. There is room for a short mention of similar issues in teaching reading in some languages.
 * Mustn't go on. Also (re)read much of Geoffrey Sampson's excellent book "Writing systems" (microreview mine). The last chapter is interestingly titled "English spelling", and is highly recommended if you have access to a copy. He distinguishes "logographic" writing like Chinese, and to a lesser extent English, with "phonographic" writing like Italian or Russian. Imaginatorium (talk) 08:25, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. It will take me awhile to digest and respond, but I will do so as soon as possible. (I have a full time job, a family and other volunteer activities.) I appreciate hearing things from your perspective. Hopefully it will enable me to improve the articles. John NH (talk) 15:56, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks again. As you can see, I have included analytic phonics in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics#Analytic_phonics_and_analogy_phonics. You might also want to look at the article on Reading that contains material on phonics. John NH (talk) 00:00, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

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