Teaching English Pronunciation

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lecompte Louisiana and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this unit I learnt the importance of teaching pronuncaition and phonetics. I learnt how to address the issue and that I should teach the IPA to the students as it could help them, as they can use it to look up the right pronuncation of a word in the dictionary. I will be able to teach the students how intonation and stress can change what they wish to say in English. I would love to use the ideas from this unit in my lessons, as I do want English learners to have a good pronunciation of the...  [Read more]

  In this video we'll be looking at the international phonemic alphabet and how it's used in the classroom. There are other phonemic alphabets but this is the most popular and the system, which is most widely used. You may have seen some of these symbols before as any good dictionary will supplement standard English spellings with the phonemic spellings to aid in pronunciation practice. Here we have a situation where we have what are called phonemes and each phoneme represents a sound within the English language. How is this helpful? Well, what it does is help students understand how to say words rather than simply relying on the often archaic English spellings. To illustrate this point let's for a moment put ourselves in the shoes of our students when trying to understand how to...  [Read more]

  Whereas stress is typically concerned with one individual word, intonation is generally concerned with the variation in volume and pitch throughout an entire sentence. Intonation carries the message of a sentence. It's particularly important when questioning or agreeing, disagreeing and confirming statements. It's also very important when expressing emotions and feelings. The normal pattern for intonation is the rise-fall. Few examples would be ?I haven't seen him for a week,? or a simple word as ?okay?. With the falling intonation, we?re indicating that we're finished speaking. Again, ?I haven't seen him for a week? and ?okay?. A few more examples would be ?I'll see you at six then,? or a question of information ?How do you spell rough?? These are straightforward statements that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL South Harrison New Jersey and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this unit we talk about pronunciations. Pronunciations is a neglected part in english language teaching. The lack of confidence by many foreign teachers in gteaching eneglish language. Most foreign teachers lacks the training and confidence when it comes to pronunciation. Pronunciation is all about listening to the students sounds in trying to say a word and then correcting them.Also, the stress of a word, stress of a word can either be high or falling, if students can be able to...  [Read more]

  A better way to go about imparting how to make sounds or what sounds are utilized in a word, is this international phonemic alphabet. Now we have as mentioned one symbol being used in all the words which share that same sound. Now once we get a little bit more familiar with our phonemic alphabet we can also show how different our different sounds can be as in this symbol for ?ooh?, this symbol for ?ow? and this symbol for ?uh?. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the...  [Read more]

  Here we have a set of five words, which all share one sound: the ?oh? sound, as in ?go?, ?show?, ?dough?, ?note? and ?boat?. They?re five different spelling patterns to tell our students so they can identify when to make the ?oh? sound. We can have a simple letter ?o?, ?ow?, ?ough?, ?o? with the magic ?e? which turns our vowel into what we knew as long sounds and the ?oa? as in ?boat?. Now, for a non-native learner, perhaps they can handle something like this. They remember that these spelling combinations help to produce the ?oh? sound and they can go about their business looking at the words and memorizing this knowing that these spelling patterns will produce the sound ?oh?. Now that?s okay until we get to a situation where we can also have words like ?to?, ?cow? and also...  [Read more]

  Connected speech is also an important element of phonology and it's involved in joining words together in an effect to make our speech more efficient. Some might say it's a product of being lazy but nonetheless it's what we all do and we want all of our non-native speakers to speak as naturally as possible, so we have to be aware of these things. Here are a few of the more common examples. We have linking, dropping, changing and extra lettering. An example of each would be with linking, we link our words together so that they almost in effect become one word. Instead of saying ?What do you want to do,? we typically will say ?Whatdoyou want to do?? Then, we can also have dropping. Rather than pronouncing each and every consonant, we can sometimes, especially in certain accents,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bunceton Missouri and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit covered one of the most important areas of language, that is, pronunciation or phonology. It taught me techniques to teach Intonation and stress as they play an important part in conveying a message and deriving context from speech. The unit also discussed how sound joining and linked speech can affect pronunciation of words or sentences. I learnt that as in English many words with same spelling can have different pronunciations it is useful to teach students phonemic symbols that may help...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Suwon and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: S.H. - U.S. said: Pronunciation seems to be one of the most neglected aspects of teaching the English language. Although it can be very beneficial for students to learn as much as possible about the correct pronounciation and articulation of words / phrases, many teachers do not see the need in covering this important topic at all. That can have different reasons, but mostly teachers skip pronunciation lessons because they do not feel comfortable enough with it themselves. This problem does not only affect non-native...  [Read more]

  The next thing we should look at is how our consonants are arranged for the top two rows we have P and F at the left side of our chart and G and J at the right side of our chart. They're arranged this way because if we analyze the way we speak we're using the front of our mouth to use these sounds as in ?p? and ?f? and I'm using my lips and my teeth to produce those sounds and as we move to the right on the chart slowly but surely we're making those sounds it towards the back of our mouth. We can use the examples of ?g?. The sound ?g? is produced further back in our mouth than ?p?. The next thing we'll notice about our chart is that some of our symbols are shaded. Notice that none of the symbols in the vowel sections are shaded but only a few are in the consonant section. The...  [Read more]

  There are two issues that need to be stressed when working with the international phonemic alphabet. First is the fact that we are no longer concerned with how a word is traditionally spelled. Additionally we need to stress that we are only concerned with the sounds needed to correctly produce a word. So rather than numerous spellings, which can often be pronounced in different ways, we have one symbol representing one sound. Once we can isolate a sound, rather than juggling various spellings, we can work with our students on how to say that sound. Doing that successfully is related to manner and place of articulation, which will be covered shortly. To get a better understanding of the phonemic alphabet, let's take a look at our chart. In the bottom half of our chart we have our...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Oriska North Dakota and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: UNIT 13 TEACHING PRONUNCIATION AND PHONOLOGY 1-PRONUNCIATION:IN TEACHING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO TEACH THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS.MANY TEACHERS GIVE LITTLE ATTENTION TO THIS. 2-PHONOLOGY -INTONATION:SOME TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING INTONATIONS ARE;NONSENSE WORDS,BY GESTURE,HUMMING OR SINGING ETC -STRESS:STRESS CAN BE TAUGHT BY GESTURE,CHORAL WORK,STRESS MARKS ETC 3-THE PHONEMIC ALPHABET 4-PHONEMIC SYMBOLS 5-ARTICULATION -THE SPEECH ORGAN:THE TONGUE,THE LARYNX,THE...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Le Flore Oklahoma and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit focuses on teaching pronunication and phonology. Pronunciation is one of the most neglected and overlooked aspects of Englis and represents one of the main obstacles each student has to face and overcome, this is why an effective teacher should consider teaching pronunciation an important part of the course that needs to be integrated with the other topics. As the unit proceeds it focuses on some basic phonology information and provides an interesting insight on intonation and and stressed...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Brownstown Pennsylvania and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit covers how to teach pronunciation and phonology. Pronunciation is considered to be the most neglected part of English language teaching. This is because teachers feel that they lack the proper training to teach this effectively. Phonology gives physical aspects to the sounds in the English language. It gives the learner an alternative way to learn how to pronounce a word correctly. Intonation, stress, rhythm and the International Phonetic Alphabet assist learners in understanding the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Baranovichi Belarus and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: The unit focused on how words are suppose to be pronounced using the various parts of the mouth correctly. Also, it threw more light on how articulation or stress words and the part that needs to be stressed on. The next part was how we should use intonation to carefully send the right message to audience other than allowing them to guess the meaning and how to ask questions as well. What i learned here in this chapter is how i was able to read the phonetic script i believe it will help me to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Leganes Spain and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In Unit 20 I learned about the most important facts when teaching special groups such as students with different skill level or completely new classes. I learned strategies on effective classroom management (Use worksheets, etc..) and the creation of an efficient learning environment for all of my students (Pairwork, etc..). I personally found this unit very helpful as it contained many solutions to different situations that may occur when teaching students.The content is based on phonology where...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bernard Iowa and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In Unit 13 methods of teaching pronunciation and phonology was introduced. The first half of the unit focuses on Pronunciations, including Intonation, Stress (in syllables, words, or lack of), and Sound joining. The second half of the unit focuses on Phonology, introducing linguistic topics such as the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and Articulation (place and manner). Through this unit I have learned that pronunciation is an often neglected aspect of TEFL due to it being very abstract. I found...  [Read more]

  As mentioned before our four words here all are similar in using the 'b' and 't' sounds at the end. So we know that those phonemes will be used in spelling each one of those words phonetically. Now what we're left to do is assign a phoneme for our vowel sounds. So if we analyze the word, it's 'e' as in bet. We look at our chart, we see the phoneme which corresponds to that sound and that happens to be the standard 'e' that we all recognize. Here, bet phonetically looks very similar to bet in the Roman script. Now let's take a look at 'i' bit. Now we look at our chart and we see that this symbol represents the 'i' sound and that resembles a capital I not a lowercase I but a capital I and so we've arrived at bit. Now with 'but' we have to find the sound and that corresponds to this...  [Read more]

  Now let's take a look at how we go from traditional spellings into the phonemic spellings. The first step in this process is identifying each unit of sound or each phoneme within a word. Let's look at bet, bit, but, and bought. The only difference in each one of these words is in the vowel sound. We have bet, bit, but and bought. Each word simply uses three sounds. Now we have photo. That's four phonemes. Wow we have taxi. That's five phonemes. We have unite with a hidden phoneme in there being the ?y? sound before anything else. Those are five phonemes as well and now we have a longer word: chemistry. Let's give that a shot. That's eight phonemes used in the word chemistry. Now once we've isolated each sound we want to assign a phoneme for each one of those sounds let's do that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United Kingdom St Helens and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit focuses on teaching pronunciation and phonology. In phonology, STRESS, RHYTHM, INTONATION AND INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABETS are considered. The various techniques for each are also detailed in this unit. I learned to teach word pronunciations through phonological item; 1. Stress: making the student feel the music of English language and add the stress naturally using the following technique: contrastive stress, gestures,choral work, the board and stress marks. 2. ...  [Read more]