Phonetic Chart

North American English Pronunciation: Difficulties of the Spanish Speaker<br /><br />The variety of English spoken in North America not only has particular grammatical structures, vocabulary, slang, and orthography, but it also comprises a unique system of pronunciation. Improper pronunciation can render a word unintelligible and yet the main goal of learning a language is to be able to communicate. While native-like pronunciation may never be attainable for some learners, it is important for teachers of English to identify potential problem areas so that their students will at least be able to communicate competently.<br /><br />The Spanish speaker will encounter several phonetic difficulties upon learning North American English (NAE). First, I will discuss the...  [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 Xiangshui 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 all about pronunciation and phonology. This lesson was extremely interesting because I had to learn and nearly master the phonemic chart for english. It was rather new to me but easy to understand once I studied it. This unit provided examples for teaching stress, intonation and pronunciation as well as all the ins and outs for us native english...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wadian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanyang 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 deals about pronunciation and stresses its importance. We firstly get a phonologic approach ie some elements about the science and physical properties of the sound. Then we are explained the intonation and the stress which are essential in the English language. Then we get a good overview of the phonemic alphabet which in theory helps us to give a phonetic...  [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 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 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 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 Chentun 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. When teaching students the importance of pronunciation in English, it is a good idea to make use of different techniques such as mouth diagrams, tongue twisters, peer dictation, over-emphasising individual parts of a word, and phonemes. Also bear in mind that if you're using phonemes, your students should have access to the International Phonetic Alphabet chart to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Haibei Zangzu Zizhizhou? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| As a native English speaker, I have never studied pronunciation in detail Wow! this was a very hard chapter for me The study of this unit was very challenging Pronunciation and phonology became the hardest chapter for me This unit is very important for a teacher as...  [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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yaobao 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. In this unit we look at teaching pronunciation and phonology. Phonology is this study and classification of the physical attributes of sounds. Intonation is the first term that we come across in this unit. Intonation is widely considered to be the variation in volume and pitch throughout a sentence. Intonation usually carries the message that you are trying to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dasijiazi 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 was a very challenging unit because of the phonetic symbol chart and learning how to translate into normal script. I found it to be interesting to learn the different placements of articulation and how to teach them. Also interesting was learning the differences in the manner of articulation. The translation exercises were very challenging and informative. ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Laxiwa 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. Since I did not learn the phonemic chart and the system when I was little, this unit is the most difficult one so far for me. It is Amazing to see how the linguistics can break down the language to a system like grammar. Linguistics did not only break down the sentence structure as how the stresses with the intonation of the sentence, which would change...  [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 Haicheng 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. Pronunciation and phonology are integral part of teaching and learning English. Skilled pronunciation teaching makes a class lively, because it reflects feelings and personal reactions to different situations. The unit teaches that intonation has to do with the variation and pitch in a whole sentences.This is what carries the message in a sentence expressing...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heicheng 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. i loved this unit! I am going to print this out and learn more about how to teach spoken english. I loved it! I learned a lot here and I thought that phonemic language and chart was really hard at first. you get used to it but i felt that it was hard. I am looking forward to teaching these sounds to be my students in the future. I am very passionate about spoken...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Haojiaqiao Zhen? 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. Unit 13 focuses on teaching pronunciation and phonology. Pronunciation is an important, yet often neglected piece of teaching the English language. Phonology incorporates science, classification, analysis, and study of sound properties. This unit focuses on stress and intonation particularly. The phonetic alphabet is also introduced with detailed explanation and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Meili Gongye Yuanqu? 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. Skilled pronunciation teaching from this unit gives live to the class because it reflects feelings and personal reactions to different situations. This unit teaches that intonation has to do with the variation and pitch in sentences,and it outlines some techniques for teaching and indicating intonations. Moreover, intonations are what carries the message in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaertai 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. Wow! This lesson taught me so much. First, the international phonemic chart, was new to me. I am familiar with the American Phonemic sounds. It is what I use to teach young children and others who may have reading challenges. It was definitely a challenge in this lesson to learn how to use it. The second thing I learned was the parts of the mouth involved in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gengke 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. Well, that was quite an interesting Unit. I thought it was the most intense unit in the curriculum thus far. I ended up watching the video twice, once taking notes and the second time just soaking the information in. I did read through the course twice as well. I really enjoyed the British Council Phonemic chart. It helped me to memorize all of the consonants, vowels...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shibajiazi 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 chapter of study was very interesting to me. I have known the phonemic alphabet existed and that it was used in dictionaries to help with pronunciation but I have never studied the chart. I would not have known how to teach from the chart. The teaching demonstration video was very helpful for me as I was learning along with the students. Pronunciation is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangpo Shuiku? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingmen 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. I have started teaching English in Turkey, since 2018. If you are planning to start your teaching career here, I would like to mention several pros and cons and problems of learning English for the speakers of Turkish language. First of all, learners expect teaching to be prescriptive rather than descriptive, which indicates, they tend to memorize the sample...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuojiAba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yichng 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. My expectations and hopes for teaching in a university in China I took this top up course to have a stronger background for teaching English as a foreign language in preparation for teaching at a university in China. I have already been in contact with the university and have “passed” the initial interview. I have done a lot of unpaid volunteer teaching,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAhedian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhumadian 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. 1.Principles of teaching reading • Reading is a purposeful enterprise Training students to develop their reading skills should be done to fulfill a range of purposes: - To search for specific information through skimming and scanning activities. - To learn and gain knowledge about different topics. - To be entertained. - To react to a text and have a say about...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAnqiao 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. How To Teach Reading Reading competence involves making sense of the written text and requires the complex interaction of knowledge and skills. When children learn to read, they need to learn to integrate the use of visual, phonological and semantic cues and relate to their own experience to construct meaning. An effective reading instruction thus involves a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Siming 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. Japan is currently undergoing a massive education reform, including English education. As an ALT in a small town, I am exposed to the consequences of these reforms, as well as on-the-ground problems of the materials the government produced. This report is not intended to speak for all of Japan, but rather my experiences teaching fifth through eighth grade students....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heshi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yueyang 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. Storytelling is and has also been an engaging way of sharing culture, moral values, and societal norms between people. It has existed before written form, and it continues to be important in the development and celebration of creativity, usually through embellished history or narrative fiction. Listening, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, and confidence-building can all...  [Read more]

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. Perhaps, James Joyce had the learners in mind when he wrote this. It being an inevitable aspect of humanity, then students should never be anxious to commit mistakes because if grasp the right way, mistakes should better every man' teach him' mold him. One very critical issue that ESL teachers ever face is when and how to correct mistakes committed by students in learning the language in a way that fosters willingness to do better and furthers motivation. Needless to say, correction needs to take place at some point or another. Therefore, how a teacher corrects students holds the greatest responsibility to either make or break the students' interest. If effectively done, then students will always have the insatiable thirst for knowledge. But if not,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lengshui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingmen 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 English to foreign speaking students comes with much responsibility, creativity, patience and kindness. On the opposite end, learning another language is challenging, requires practice and can be frustrating. To make the teaching and learning exchange seamless there are a variety of lesson structures and independent/ group activities available for teachers...  [Read more]