Ipa Abbreviation

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SAnzhAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang 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. “Language is any form of sound or sign a living being can produce to convey some form of meaning to another living being”, that being said Business Language can be defined or explained differently. “Business Language is the commodity that is being bought and sold in our daily lives, the exchange of goods and currency takes place to just add weight to said...  [Read more]

Phonetics and its Uses in Foreign Language InstructionPhonetics is the study of the physical aspects of speech. It is broken down into three categories: articulatory phonetics deals with the way in which speech sounds are produced, concerning itself with the actual organs involved in speech (vocal tract, tongue, lips, etc.); acoustic phonetics studies the physical properties of speech sounds, such as the properties of sound waves and the acoustics of speech; and auditory phonetics analyses the way in which humans perceive sounds, and involves the anatomy and physiology of the human ear and brain (Nicole Dehe, 'Phonology and Phonetics,' 1-2). Phonetics looks only at sounds themselves, rather their meanings or the context in which they are used, while the study of sound systems or...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuzhoudi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chifeng 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. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a set of symbols that is used to represent sounds that are used in spoken language. Each symbol or set of symbols in IPA represents a singular sound. This means that anything written with IPA symbols will have the correct pronunciation provided the writer both hears the spoken language correctly and writes the right...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dayu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jiyuan 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 serves as an introduction to the course, Teaching English to Young Learners. This unit defined the material that will be learned in the following five units of this course. The second will cover themes of teaching and learning. The third will cover elements of developing our own courses, such as test making and level placement. The fourth will cover material...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huianbao 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. As a person who loves phonetics, this unit was one of the best of this course so far. I agree that it can be difficult and daunting for new and or inexperienced EFL teachers. However I think I will enjoy it. I am tempted to have my students be able to read and write the IPA but now realize that it is not the most important nor the most effective way of teaching...  [Read more]

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 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 Longshenghe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayannao'er Shi — Bayan Nur? 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 China, when the parents help their children choose an English school, they always like to ask us whether we teach British English or American English. In fact, most of the English learned by students in mainland China tends to be American English. Of course, it is very important for some children who go to study in the UK or take IELTS test...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huashixia 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. Unit 13 Pronunciation: So much of this material was entirely new to me. I had to study it three times over in order to feel I was familiar with the content. Some of the suggested activities sound like a lot of fun to do! I copied and enlarged the IPA chart for my future use. Task 9 on page 27 would have been easier if the text on page 22...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qianjin Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Shenyang 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. Pronunciation is a oft neglected part of English language teaching but one which students do indicate they would like more help on. Phonology is the study of sound. Three areas of this is intonation, rhythm and stress. The IPA is a more scientific way of representing distinct unique sounds for English. Each sound has a IPA symbol representing it. Articulation...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word ilk. This word describes a person or a thing that is similar to a person or a thing previously referred to. Suitable synonyms for ilk are type, category, sort, and class. 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 next. According to J.Harmer there are three main areas which teachers need to know about the pronunciation - intonation (as variation in vo;ume and pitch), sounds and stress. As for my opinion the most...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangqiao 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. Dealing with Phonetics is a difficult challenge even for Native speakers, especially as the use of the IPA is not a natural instinct to use it, or instantly pull together the sounds. However, I can see it being of benefit to advanced learners of English when self learning. For beginners though, I would feel its to not use the IPA especially with younger children....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lulou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuzhou 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 course has been a great help to me, and I feel I need to bring you up to date on my journey to get to this point. My wife and I are retiring on May 1st of this year and will be going to Vietnam to help university students improve their English-speaking skills. We will be teaching at the local university or perhaps the nearest coffee shop. We have a love for the...  [Read more]

Phonetics and its Uses in Foreign Language Instruction Phonetics is the study of the physical aspects of speech. It is broken down into three categories: articulatory phonetics deals with the way in which speech sounds are produced, concerning itself with the actual organs involved in speech (vocal tract, tongue, lips, etc.); acoustic phonetics studies the physical properties of speech sounds, such as the properties of sound waves and the acoustics of speech; and auditory phonetics analyses the way in which humans perceive sounds, and involves the anatomy and physiology of the human ear and brain (Nicole Dehe, ?Phonology and Phonetics,? 1-2). Phonetics looks only at sounds themselves, rather their meanings or the context in which they are used, while the study of sound systems or...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhangxiang 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 provided a brief overview of the topic of teaching pronounciation to students as well as the study of phonology. As this unit was centered on laying down general guidelines for English pronounciation, the unit contained broad reviews of the different facets of English pronounciation (intonation, stress, rhythym, and a general introduction into...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in QinghaihuNongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Haibei 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 covered a lot of material. I was surprised that phonology was included to the point were it was necessary to know the IPA alphabet and complete transcriptions. I am currently in a phonetics course and found my knowledge from that course to carry over for this unit and be helpful. Because I have a background in Communication Sciences and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiyang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Guyuan 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 more challenging than any other unit.　I now understand how to write and use the IPA chart ti teach pronunciation to my students. It is of great importance that we help them to learn English and not an accent. This will help them to communicate better with any English speaker they meet. The topic of intonation also proved useful as it helped to learn...  [Read more]

  The idiom "elbow room" refers to having enough room to move in or having the ability to act freely, for example: The concert was so crowded that there was hardly any elbow room at all. This means, there were so many people at the concert that you could barely move. 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 next. One of the most useful resources in teaching Phonology in the ESL classroom is the International Phonetic Alphabet. The IPA provides a harmonized and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jinxing 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. In this unit, I learnt about the 3 different aspects of teaching pronunciation which are intonation, stress and articulation. Intonation refers to the rise and fall of a sentence and how that would affect the purpose and meaning of a sentence. Stress refers to an emphasis that are placed onto individual syllable which enhance the point of subject which speaking....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jinjia 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 is a quite confusing but it's also fulfilling once you learned it. It is believed that pronunciation is the least topic that English teachers give attention to their students. Maybe because native speakers just know the sound but they can't technically discuss the speech organs which is needed on learning the correct way of producing sound. Stress,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guanting Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Guyuan 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. To be able to speak like a native English speaker speak is really a very difficult task or even an impossible to do for English learners since they are not exposed to it, lack of training and not surrounded by English language in the use of intonation, stress, sound joining, pronunciation, articulation, phonetics as in IPA thus lacking confidence. Even English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in OujiAngcha Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yiyang 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. Phonology involves studying how sounds are organised in a language to create meaning. It differs in every language as sounds are organised to create words, which are then organised in sentences. Phonetics involves understanding how sounds are physically made, what part of the vocal tract is used and how air is used to produce sounds. Understanding both phonology...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wuqiangxi 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. Teaching and learning English is at high demand nowadays due to globalization factor, cross cultural projects, freelancing and growing number of on-line jobs. Whether you are a practicing teacher of English or the one who makes the first steps in teaching, completing a TEFL course and getting a TEFL certificate will be an important step in your career of an...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiqiang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Guyuan 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 unit 13 we learned about a very difficult topic to teach, as most native speakers don't really learn about it unless they study it formally: Pronunciation and Phonology. I took a linguistics class in college, so I was already familiar with the IPA and how to classify sounds (voiced, unvoiced, fricatives, palatal, alveolar, plosive, etc). I did find it useful...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baitian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangtan 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. For the longest time, people have clearly separated teaching English from linguistics, which tends to include all their subcategories. However, phonetics in particular plays an incredibly integral part in the teaching of the English language. Why is an understanding of phonetics important in aiding the teaching pronunciation, articulation, and intonation? Being...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yaotang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changzhou 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. Slang and idioms are used in all aspects of communication and it’s something important to understand as part of learning any language. These expressions that fit into the situation and stick to the mouth make the conversation meaningful and more rich. Not only does it enhance conversation with native speakers, but it also shortens the cultural gap. As you study...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wangying Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huangshi 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. TTT, is the word I had never heard of during my first year of working as a teacher. After being observed at a session of a starter class, they just told me that I had to reduce TTT and just left me alone with this strange word. After looking the abbreviation up I realized this was the same technique we were taught in TTC, Teacher Training Course, as Teacher...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengnan? 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. Formal and informal language serve different purposes. The tone, the choice of words and the way the words are put together vary between the two styles. The focus of this essay is to differentiate between formal and informal language by looking at it’s tone, style, syntax, purpose as well as examples illustrating the language. Formal language is less personal than...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shiyan 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. To start with, TEFL is an abbreviation for "Teaching English as a Foreign Language" to speakers of other languages. This means this was a requirement to teach at a school, and teaching itself is fun and I could learn something new which were the reasons why I chose to study the TEFL. Firstly, the major requirements to teach at an international (formal) school, or in a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhichanghe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingzhou 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. 37. Pronunciation problems in a country of your choice. Each student faces their own difficulties when it comes to English pronunciation depending on their country of origin. This essay will focus on the pronunciation difficulties facing ESL students in France and will also propose some solutions to help students overcome these difficulties. The number of...  [Read more]