Abstract: Can children make use of spelling-to-sound correspondence when they initially read? If that抯 the truth, which spelling segment or segments are the analogy based on? and whether the analogy ability raises gradually or remains the same. All these are of the central concerns in the past two decades. With the prominent work of two important researchers U.Goswami and J.A.Bowey, the paper shows the process of research on such respects, and it illuminates the methodological reasons of the issues, furthermore, it gives some views about the new researching tendency.

Key words: spelling-to-sound correspondence, analogy strategy, new word reading.