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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tangchuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Haidong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. IPA introduction (International Phonetic Alphabet). For me this was rather new, I never went so far with phonetic. Phonetics deals with the production of speech sounds by humans, often without prior knowledge of the language being spoken. Phonology is about speech patterns, sounds within words. We should keep time into the classroom as to investigate pronunciation...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hainan Zangzu Zizhizhou? Are you interested in teaching English in Hainan Zangzu Zizhizhou? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Unit 13 covers pronunciation and phonetics, teaching how we speak and explaining how the way we speak can affect the underlying tone of our sentences Unit 13 is all about the phonetic alphabet, teaching pronunciation, and and stress and intonation Unit thirteen was...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tieling Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Tieling Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| This unit is a quite confusing but it's also fulfilling once you learned it This unit on pronunciation is very insightful and challenging Pronunciations and phonology are the most difficult course I have come across, especially phonetic pronunciation This unit focuses on pronunciation and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liuyehulǚyoudujiaqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Changde Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. What is phonology? Most students have not even heard about it. Whenever I ask my students whether they know or have ever learnt about phonetic, the same answers come out, “No, we don’t know about it at all”. It is no wonder they reply like this because there is no phonetic teaching lesson in English classes from KG to high school here in my country. As...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAgou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Taizhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Phonetics/Phonology Why phonetics vs phonology is important to study for teachers and students? A very communal definition, ‘phonetics is a study that relates to sounds of speech’. It helps in decoding words and pronouncing them correctly. Whereas, phonology treaties with sound patterns, stress and intonation in a specific language and it also inspects the sounds...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tieling Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Tieling Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| This unit was about "prononciation", apparently the most neglected aspect of English langage I will have to say this one was the most challenging lessons for me yet A very interesting and somewhat tricky unit, which challenged some of my thinking A very interestig and somewhat tricky...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yinchuan Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Yinchuan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| In this unit I learned how to break down pronunciation for my students Pronunciation and phonology are key for understanding language I must admit the Unit was very interesting Unit 13 focuses on teaching pronunciation and phonology Unit 13 focuses on teaching pronunciation and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tanping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chenzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Summative Task Topic Option #4 Phonetics and Phonology Summative Task Question: Should Chinese ESL Students Have Explicit Phonetic Instruction? During a nine year period of teaching English as a Second language I have discovered how important phonetics is in learning the correct pronunciation of the English language, and in fact, in any language. Derwing and Munro...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qijiazi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tieling Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This is entirely new information and a lot to soak in, but I think overall, I was able to learn the variables in phonetics and how to better describe it to students. Learning how to describe the difference in /th/ sounds for example, or use phonetic spelling to explain sounds. I will need more practice in understand the phonetic spellings and how to share with...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bazhou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Haidong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit 13 is covering a very difficult topic for me which is the pronunciation and phonology. It covers the intonation, stress within the word, the syllable, sound joining, the phonemic alphabet, the phonemic symbols for consonants, vowels, diphthongs, the articulation, and the phonetic scripts. I enjoyed this lesson very much because it teaches lots of new things for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangjiazi Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Tieling Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit explains the definition of phonology: the science and classification of the physical properties of sound. This unit also explains how to use the International Phonetic Alphabet to help students learn the correct pronunciation of English. This unit further explains the difference between intonation and stress. For example, I learned that intonation...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YaofuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shizuishan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. As a native English speaker, this unit on how to teach articulation and phonetics was interesting to study. I found the phonetic alphabet very foreign-feeling, fun, and difficult all at the same time. I think that teaching English using phonetics will be a huge challenge for me as it is a tool I am very unfamiliar with. I understand its use and purpose, but it would...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShA'erqin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baotou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Skipping phonetics and phonology entirely with ESL learners is an easy thing to do. Indeed, I first avoided it because I believe students should aim for being communicative, and that so long as pronunciation does not impede understanding, we all need to be a little less concerned with how people sound. After all, most people who use English as a second language...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Manping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Haidong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit was a challenge to complete. I have seen phonetic charts before but I have never studied them in such great depth. I am used to languages with tones as I’ve done some Mandarin learning myself. There, the tone/stress is very important, otherwise one risks saying something totally unrelated to what they wish to say. In this unit I got great insight into...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Laosiping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tieling Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit focuses on pronunciation and phonology. The first part focuses particularly on phonology, intonation, and when to stress words and syllables in a sentence. It also gives examples on how to teach these. I was taught as a child that English is a phonetic language, but this unit clarified that it truly isn't. Phonemic symbols show how words are pronounced,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wuzhong Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Wuzhong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| I've taught a little pronunciation before a very very very very very sooo much looooong unit full off manyyy informations tooooo much actualllu i hate it even when i took it in my college studying i hate it and i still hate it am sorry for saying this but i really hate it...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dazhanchang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhongwei Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit was quite very interesting. I had known about phonetics and pronunciations, but this unit seems to be opening new doors of understanding for me. I really enjoyed the way everything is specifically explained with detailed examples. I enjoyed the fricative sounds and will surely try them with my students. However, I feel schools that teach English as a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gabasongduo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hainan Zangzu Zizhizhou? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit covers a very important topic of pronunciation. The unit considers how we use intonation and stress to emphasize our speech. This topic wasn`t easy for me because of the large number of terms. The theme of phonemic alphabet and articulation seemed to me especially difficult, especially I had to sit with phonetic symbols. But I`m glad that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Beiye Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit covered the different aspects of pronunciation: intonation, stress, and the phonemic alphabet. It taught the three basic intonation patterns of English, rise/fall, fall/rise, and flat. It also covered some basic rules for knowing which syllable to stress in a word or which word to stress in a sentence. Although I naturally follow these patterns every day and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sailaitang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Guoluo Zangzu Zizhizhou — Golog? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Phonetics are taught by me on a regular basis in tutoring, and often demonstrates the importance of listening, explanation, and patience. Often I have the student repeat words and then simply break up the sounds into syllables. Once acihieved, and at times, having to explain even syllables, we concenytpratebpn the correct sounds. As pointed...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAngxi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yancheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In a lot of non-native English-speaking countries, it is common for English to be offered as subject that students can study from as early as 1st grade elementary school. However, while English grammar is taught to these students, phonics isn’t always part of the curriculum, especially in Asian countries. There are many reasons for this, stemming from the belief...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Weizhou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wuzhong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit covered phonetics and pronunciation. There was a great emphasis on how important (and difficult) pronunciation is for non-native speakers learning English. This unit was extremely informative as it included the phonetic alphabet. It also explained the difference between intonation and stress. I think it will be extremely useful as an EFL teacher, as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changle Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhongwei Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit 13 is a lesson for teaching pronunciation and phonology.Pronunciation generally we can divide it into phonology and individual sounds,when phonology is more likely related to sentences but individual sounds are related to individual words.First,it clarifies the detail definition of phonology,giving me ideas of stress,rhythm and intonation.And the following...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yaoshi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huaihua Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Background – Why I Chose this Topic I chose this topic for my essay because it is not something I had ever given much thought to. As a native speaker, I don’t recall studying correct pronunciation in school along with other aspects of language learning such as grammar and vocabulary. Correct, or at least acceptable and understandable, pronunciation was something...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in MangniuMachang? Are you interested in teaching English in Tieling Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit was extremely helpful, so I learned whole lot of new things. I learned what phonology and phonetics are. I learned intonation and the techniques we can use to teach it. I also learned the stress and some rules related to stress. Importantly, there were some nice techniques that we can use to teach stress. Additionally, I studied linking and how important...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lunan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yingkou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This was a very interesting lesson! Regarding the first part of phonology, I found it helpful how to learn about and identify intonation patterns. It was very useful to understand in which contexts each technique is applied and used. I appreciated seeing the techniques for indicating and teaching intonation, as well as those techniques for indicating and teaching...  [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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dazhang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhuzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. It seems that the teaching of phonology to students of all levels is still typically centered on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The ITTT online material and Vantage offline classes are no exceptions. Despite seeing such introductions many times prior, it was still remarkable when the video narrator began mentioned “Alveolar, Retro­flex, Palatal,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JirengAole Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xilinguole Meng — Xilin Gol? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards, and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand. Ludwig Wittgenstein General observations Language is rich and diverse, it has many functions, forms and styles. Moreover, language is very old. However, despite its antiquity, it is forever young and flexible. In the same...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Haidong Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Haidong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| In language classroom, it is likely that pronunciation is overlooked and neglected, but in communication intonation and stress are necessary The difficulty in teaching proper pronunciation is in the highest level especially for foreign learners I am quite certain that I will definitely...  [Read more]