'Why I support Professor Ho Ngoc Dai's spelling method'

Many people oppose Professor Ho Ngoc Dai's method, but most of them have not yet found the book. After researching, I wrote this article to share so that those who oppose it can understand why many schools support this way of learning.

Is there a need to change the method?

If we only need to know how to read and write, there are many methods to learn, but the old method causes us to encounter the following problems: Not knowing the names and sounds of letters. Therefore, what we learn when we are young isa flagbut when learning math it is called trianglea bex, or like class 1B is acalfnot oneedgebut don't understand why? (I asked many people about this problem, no one who studied by the old method could answer why).

We don't know what the sound is. The spelling.wowgo outUyenis a way of looking at the letters to read rather than spelling them out. No child who cannot read can spell like that. There are many illogical things that we are forced to accept. For example, why is there a letteraread asah, but Ifishnot meapartment? Why is there?loss, HaveHigh, but there isfloweragain nohave? Do you see the wordhaveDoes this sound similar?viano? If so fromperfunctoryrhymeohwhen say no?

This problem occurs in all of us who study using the old method, that's why VTV reads asve-te-vebut the G7 group reads it asedge 7. At this point, if you think it is okay not to understand these issues, you can let your children learn using the old method, without having to learn the new method. And if you do not understand this, do not be offended by Professor Dai's saying that "parents cannot teach their children", because it is true that we do not know, children will learn all of the above.

What is the new learning method?

The old way we were forced to memorize the characters, that is, from letters => sounds => sounds. Therefore, many things we evaluate based on words, not on what we hear. For examplemandarinandhappyif pronounced clearly is same rhymeinjustice, but frommandarinjust rhymesafeRhyme is according to the spoken language. Before the national language existed, folk songs already had rhymes without knowing what they were written in.injusticegoodsafe.

The new way of teaching children is from sounds => sounds => letters. Therefore, teachers start teaching children with poems. For exampleIn the pond, nothing is more beautiful than the lotus/Green leaves, white flowers, and yellow stamens. In the first lesson, students will learn how to separate sounds, each sound heard corresponds to a square, circle, pebble or clap of hands... Parents whose children are studying this lesson at home should teach their children some folk songs to practice. Students will be guided to recognize that these two sentences have a rhyming rhythm because there are sounds.lotusandinsertsomething similar. At this point, children cannot read, but they can notice the similarities and the rhythm of the sounds.

From here the teacher asked about the sounds the baby hears every day that are similar tolotusandinsert. Children will find countless sounds: khen, len, đen... and /ken/ (Before talking about c, q, k, I marked the related words in two slashes //). Similarly, children will then learn about other sounds. For example, the soundathen there are wordsba, /ka/, ha, ta, pha, nga... Note, at this time the child is still talking, not learning to write. And she will teach the child all the other rhymes... The student will learn a polysyllabic word, for example the wordthreeThen the teacher guides fromthreesplit intoshore a=> three. She will teach students sounds.edge, and have students find sounds that have the same sound.edgethis like:Dad, sell, bloom, ball...

In general, children will learn about all the sounds in Vietnamese. At this stage, children can actually spell any word they hear. Parents should ask their children what they learned in class today, and ask them about the sounds and names of people they know every day for them to practice. At this time, children still cannot read, so do not point to the words and ask them to read, but talk to them to analyze the sounds and spell them themselves.

After students know how to separate sounds, the teacher will teach them that before a sound was represented by a square, now a sound will be represented by a certain letter. Specifically, the soundacharacter is lettera, nameda.Minusedgecharacter is letterbnamedcalf. Minusflagcharacter is letterc, k, qnamedxe, ca, quy...So children will realize,a flagis negative,a bexis the name of the letter. When spelling, use the sounda flag, when using letters to name something, read the name asa bexFor exampletriangle ABC should be read as trianglea bex, or triangle CKQ must be read as trianglexeca, Vitamin C is read as Vitaminxe, class 1B is acalf.

Understanding the names and sounds of words also helps us learn a foreign language a lot. Dictionaries all have the words and the phonetic transcriptions next to them. Before, we learned both the writing and the reading, which was easy to forget. The problem Vietnamese people face is that they can remember and translate but cannot read, perhaps because they have to memorize the reading of words by rote, and if they don't use them for a long time, they will forget them immediately.

Problem c, k, q

The problem that makes us learn the old way the most confusing is c, k, q. Why can these three words have one sound /k/ - pronounced asflag. Back to the voice, if you don't look at the words but just listen, can you see the words?viaif read aloud/koa/rhymingohwithloudspeakerAre not?/koa/ speaker...will have to rhyme because the pronunciation is the same. If we haveHam = Ham, Tam = Tam, Cam = CamthenHoa = Ho oa Hoa, Toa = Toa sheet, /koa/ = Co oa /koa/.

Similarlightpronunciation is/koang/must rhyme withwild, wild, wild, wild..Advertisingwith pronunciation/about/must rhymeloudwithpanic, about./kam/rhymingamwithdesire.../cream/rhymingmewithcream, see, see, chem... Vietnamese follows the rules of Latin characters, because the creators of the national language were all Westerners. They were stuck with the rules of the characters they used, so they applied them to the national language. Specifically, the sounds/k/(minusflag) when standing before the letterso, a, u, ư... then use the letter C (xe) =>Song, teacher, child, rice... Flag sound/k/stand beforei, e, êthen use the letter K (ca) =>cream, pliers, needles...

Vietnamese has compound sounds with main sounds and medial sounds:wah, oan, oang, ueh, uy... The preceding medial sound is/o/, the main sound isa, a... (Not every diphthong has a main and a secondary, for examplepoweris has a filler sound, butyesthen there is no). Sound/k/ flagBefore double sounds with main sound and medial sound, the character will be changed to letterq, the middle sound changes tou,angry/koa/ To bevia,/koang/To belight,/koe/To bestick.

When I was studying, many of my friends misspelled words.through, throw, stickwalltossbecause it is clear that the words are rhymesooh, ooh, oe. Especially with words/hooves/, at first the national language only used one wordhoe, some other pronunciation regions write it asQuoc,later unified a wordcountryis a word for a country, to be different from all other countries. You can learn more about these rules and other spelling rules in the Vietnamese book according to the Educational Technology program.

It is because of these rules that we seec, k, qnever go with the same rhyme except in the case of quốc - cuốc. (You have to study Latin for why they have these rules, if they apply them we have to accept them). Quốc ngữ is studied and written according to very strict rules, there is no such thing as "it is like that because it is regulated", or this word is written like that because "people regulate it like that".

We used to only memorize words without understanding the rules, so we still argued about many issues that were considered irregular or illogical. For example, the sound (when spoken)viaobviously rhymes withohbut until now we have considered it a rhyming worda, a rhyming wordoh, ormandarinwithhappy, lightwithwildsame. With the old way of learning, we had to look at the words to learn, so fromviaPeople have wondered how to read ifqis negativeflagwill become a wordcrab, without paying attention to the soundviait rhymesohnot rhymeuagooda.

Also according to the spelling rules, the wordsweight... is misspelled because it violates the rules. It is different from a word that is still correct even though it is meaningless, such as:danger, danger, danger... or fromtravelrecently it has meaning but before it was meaningless. Many other related issues you have to hold the book in your hand to evaluate and learn, there are too many things we are forced to accept without knowing why.

Because of the old way of learning, there is a word that ispreciousandpreciousWe use both interchangeably because the old spelling wassearchindistinguishableigoody. But according to the principle of Vietnamese, the sound (when speaking)quarter/quarterlyobviously rhymes withHuy, Thuythen it must rhymepower.

Did Mr. Dai create these rules? No. That is the path to forming our national language, which has been applied to create words for hundreds of years. Mr. Dai only teaches you to follow that path under the guidance of the teacher. That is why Mr. Dai is confident that this teaching method will last forever. When the national language disappears, this teaching method will no longer exist, and this book will no longer be usable.

There are many students and many parents who have tested how their children learn with this method. If you have any questions, ask those people, they will be the most accurate and will answer them. Moreover, with this method, students do not need to learn letters first, and do not need to take any extra classes before entering first grade. Parents can help their children by teaching them to sing, teach folk songs, teach poems by heart so that they have a natural feeling of sounds and rhymes.

In my opinion, the new method with very clear rules makes it easy for children to grasp. In fact, children can read and write after only two months, so you don't have to worry that they don't understand these rules. The new method allows children to learn by exploring, exploring sounds, exploring voices, exploring and paying attention to what is around them. It is very different from the old method where children only focus on practice books.

Many of my friends studied and said that they were very eager to go to school every day. Unlike the old method of forcing students to memorize, some students were taught letters by their parents, while others were not. When they were in first grade, those who already knew the words felt bored, while those who did not know the words felt inferior because their friends were good, leading to a very different mentality from the new method where the whole class learned together.

In general, I support the new method, both in terms of children's thinking and in terms of helping children be less ignorant than we were when learning with the old method.

(This article is by someone who studies using the old method and does not research language, so if there are any errors in using technical terms, I hope you will forgive me).

Chairman of the National Council for the Evaluation of the Vietnamese Language and Education Technology Book - Associate Professor Bui Manh Hung said that the document is controversial, but in reality, the method of teaching spelling in it has helped students develop quite effectively the skills of reading aloud and writing correctly. Up to now, nearly 50 provinces and cities with about 800,000 students are using this book.

Professor Ho Ngoc Dai shared that the book is built on the principle of "if you want to learn something, you have to do it yourself". When applied, students will be the ones doing the work, while teachers will only assign tasks, observe, and guide methods. He is confident that the book will last forever, and that the education system he builds is correct because it has a theoretical foundation of philosophy, psychology, and is supported by educational technology..