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KK and phonics?

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00In Taiwan, many people learn KK. But i don't get the difference?02br
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0 I've never heard of KK, but Phonics is a method for teaching children to read by calling their attention to the sounds represented by certain letters and letter groups.02br
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KK (Kenyon & Knott) is a phonetic system popular in Taiwan (and, I think, nowhere else) for representing the sounds of American English. It's very close to the IPA, anyway.

Phonics is a theory & practice for teaching children correct pronunciation, not a phonetic alphabet.
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Same question from my student today, never mind it, with K.K., people hardly sounds right anyway, plus, it can't even help on memorizing vocabularies, since most words are pronounce wrong and resulting in bad spellings, also, no one else on planet earth is using it anyway, i had learned K.K. ever since 10, and abandoned it when I was 20, so lucky me. Try to look up several alphabets and words a
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KK is based on the A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, which was written by John S. Kenyon & Thomas A. Knotts. So, KK stands for the last names of both of the people who wrote this dictionary. As for IPA and KK, there are only a few different symbols that KK uses which is different from IPA or Pronunciation Symbols used in other dictionaries.
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In phonics, people are brought to the attention that a set of words have the same vowel quality. In KK, this vowel quality is transcribed using IPA. If I am teaching kids, I dont want to burden them with IPA.

Phonics consists of set of heuristics or generalizations, which are not true always. But they help you localize what the possible sounds are when they encounter a new word.
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KK isn't phonics. KK is a phonetic alphabet developed to resemble English but with Greek symbols to represent the /th/, /sh/ and /ch/ sounds. The long e, a and i sounds are represented by the symbols <i>, <e> and <ai> respectively which reveals the vowel shift between English and European languages. (See the pronounciation of i in pizza, e in cafe or ai in Taiwan or Thailand.
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KK is to help you to pronounce some word and phonics is to help you do you learn grammar

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