Phonetics vs. Phonics

Phoneticsnoun

(linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.

Phoneticsnoun

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

Phoneticsnoun

The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters.

Phoneticsnoun

the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis

Phonetics

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Phoneticians—linguists who specialize in phonetics—study the physical properties of speech.

Phonicsnoun

The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling.

Phonicsnoun

A method of teaching elementary reading based on the phonetic interpretation of normal spelling.

Phonicsnoun

Phonetics.

Phonicsnoun

Acoustics.

Phonicsnoun

same as Phonetics.

Phonicsnoun

a method of teaching reading and spelling to beginning students, emphasizing the sound values of individual letters and syllables, and the relationship between pronunciation and spelling. Contrasted to whole language method and sentence method.

Phonicsnoun

teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values

Phonics

Phonics is a method for teaching people how to read and write an alphabetic language (such as English, Arabic and Russian). It is done by demonstrating the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language (phonemes), and the letters or groups of letters (graphemes) or syllables of the written language.