New research has found that mnemonic images and explicit sound contrasting help Japanese children learn more effectively the sounds of the English alphabet. New research by Professor Emmanuel Manalo ...

Believe it or not, the capital A hasn’t always looked the way it does now. Ancient Egyptians wrote the letter upside down, creating a symbol that resembled a steer with horns. Learn the surprising ...

Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning ...

Why Q Needs U. By Danny Bate. Blink Publishing; 336 pages; £14.99. T HE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children memorise it before they know why it matters. Then it’s of ...

This is the eighth of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the third of eight voiced consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the eighth of eight voiced ...

Group of men and women wearing 'X'-emblazoned T-shirts, bandanas and baseball caps, with one man in a Malcolm X T-shirt From its origins with the Phoenicians to Twitter's rebrand, "x" is one of the ...

This video breaks down the surprising flaws behind the way we teach children the alphabet, especially the classic “A is for Apple”-style letter–object system. While it seems harmless, the method ...

The coolest letter in the alphabet: When we learn the letters of the English alphabet, we just remember them in order, from A to Z. But have you ever thought about whether some letters are just ...