Removal of Chinese Second Foreign Language material I have removed the second foreign language material unrelated to phonics Phonics doesn t teach English pronunciation rules because it was designed for users of English as a First language who already have phonemic competence in that language In fact phonics is just the opposite relationship of pronunciation rules because it s the grapheme and grapheme phoneme relationships that are systematically being taught by increasing phonemic awareness In other words phonics is about teaching decoding skills a subset of reading skills where the learning readers have been producing and using the phonemes of English their entire lives Pronunciation is not being taught in phonics