Type Phonetic Alphabet

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bowman South Carolina 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 was extremely confusing and hard to understand. It focused on the phonetics and pronunciation of words. It first discussed multiple types of tonal patterns for sentences, and then gave different techniques for teaching these patterns to students. Stress on certain words and syllables was then talked about, including how stressing different syllables can change the meaning of a sentence. The phonetic alphabet was then introduced, and multiple diagrams were displayed to show the different...  [Read more]

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  And now we have our nasal sounds. There are three nasal sounds and basically the pattern of air that's moving out of our vocal tract has to do with two big instances and that is a closure in the vocal tract. Except aside from the plosives and affricates, what we have is air escaping through our nasal cavity. These sounds include ?m?, ?n? and ?ng?. We're moving from the front of the mouth to the back of the mouth. First with the M sound or the ?m?, we're closing both lips and the air is escaping through the nasal passage ?m?. Next we have our N sound or our ?n? sound. There, the closure is inside the mouth but our tongue is closing up near our alveolar ridge and the air is escaping through the nose. Again that's ?n?. Finally we have our NG sound and the closure there is happening...  [Read more]

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  The next example is going to be that of a boomerang lesson and remember the structure is like this. So, again, we're going to start with an engage phase and for our engage, the students are just going to have a discussion about jobs. What happens at interviews and so on and so forth. So, during that engage phase, what we'd hope to do is to elicit some useful language about jobs and interviews and the types of questions that are being asked. Then, we're going to move immediately into an activate activity and this is going to involve a role-play. So, we'll break the students into pairs. One will be an interviewer, the other will be an interviewee and they'll generate the language that that role-play will produce. What the teacher can do whilst that is taking place is to go around...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Buckingham Indiana 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 emphasized the importance of teaching pronunciation. The first half of the unit explained techniques on how to teach intonation and stress in speech. The unit identified the two types of intonation (rise/fall and fall/rise) and when to use them in everyday conversation. The unit also explained which syllables stress should be used with different types of words. The second half of the unit concentrated on phonetic speech by providing the International Phonetic Alphabet and diagrams of how...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Benghazi 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: M.N. - U.S.A. said: This unit teaches pronunciation and phonology of the English language. They are the most difficult to standardize when teaching and are therefore the most neglected aspects of teaching English. Phonology is the study, science, analysis, and classification of the physical properties of sounds. There are three main area of phonology: stress, rhythm, and intonation. All of these areas are supported by the knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Where intonation is the variation in...  [Read more]

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