Initial Teaching Alphabet

[ ih-nish-uhl tee-ching al-fuh-bet ]

noun

1. a writing system based on an expanded English alphabet, consisting of 43 characters representing different phonemes of spoken English, used for teaching beginners to read. : I.T.A., i.t.a.

Example Sentences

Far from being the work of drunken printers, this is Britain's Initial Teaching Alphabet ?a nue wae too lern too reed and riet that Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle last month pronounced "a remarkable success."

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Developed by Sir James Pitman, a Conservative M.P. and grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac, the Initial Teaching Alphabet is no Shavian attempt to supersede the regular alphabet.

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But, although there are studies supporting the notion that team teaching, programmed tests, and the Initial Teaching Alphabet, for examples, are in some way superior to traditional techniques, it is not difficult to find research reports that contradict this conclusion.

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