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English
Etymology
From phonics + educator.
Pronunciation
Noun
phonicator (plural phonicators)
- (humorous, slang, sometimes derogatory) An educator who champions the use of phonics instruction as a method of beginning or remedial reading instruction, often used as a self-referent.
I'm a phonicator, and proud of it!
Those phonicators are going to take the joy out of learning how to read.
References
- Adams, Marilyn Jager. (1999). The science and politics of beginning reading practices. In J. Oakhill & R. Beard (Eds.), Reading Development and the Teaching of Reading: A Psychological Perspective (p. 215). Oxford, Blackwell Publishing
- Gordon, L. M. (2006). Whole Language. In The Encyclopedia of Human Development. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 3, 1323-1324.
- Sherman, L., & Ramsey, B. (2006). The reading glitch: How the culture wars have hijacked reading instruction and what we can do about it. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 49-52.
- Stahl, S. A. (1998). Understanding shifts in reading and its instruction. Peabody Journal of Education, 73, 31-67.
- Williams, J. P. (Ed.) (1998). Scientific studies of reading. New Jersey: Erlbaum. p. 10.