A Case Study of a Structured Phonological Approach for English L2 Learners

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This case study identifies some of the problematic areas associated with constructing a phonological approach to young L2 learners. In many English institutes, for various reasons, many of the phonological needs of L2 learners are not satisfied. As a result, L2 learners do not have a strong enough foundation to build on for further English acquisition. Without this kind of phonological foundation, students are often hindered from future development in their academic career and have diminished English skills and lower confidences to learn. This case study focuses on a group of ten L2 learners. They completed a structured phonics program, and they were tested on reading sight words, reading sentences, and spelling basic words in English. The results were analyzed and showed that the benefits of the structured phonics teaching method were effective, and this method needs to be applied to other learners and studied in the future.

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