Phonetic System

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]

Humans speak with each other by creating sounds. That is how we communicate with each other. Over the centuries the different languages have created systems of grammar to explain how the words in their languages work. Sometime after that, they began to create systems to explain how the sounds, or phonemes, of the different words work. Two disciplines arose out of this: phonetics and phonology.Phonetics is the study of the sounds themselves. In the world there are a limited number of possible sounds which the human vocal tract can produce. Of these sounds, the distinctive pronunciations of the different languages are produced. But how are theses sounds produced and represented' The answer to this question is the area of study of Phonetics. Generally, Phonetics is subdivided into three...  [Read more]

Humans speak with each other by creating sounds. That is how we communicate with each other. Over the centuries the different languages have created systems of grammar to explain how the words in their languages work. Sometime after that, they began to create systems to explain how the sounds, or phonemes, of the different words work. Two disciplines arose out of this: phonetics and phonology. Phonetics is the study of the sounds themselves. In the world there are a limited number of possible sounds which the human vocal tract can produce. Of these sounds, the distinctive pronunciations of the different languages are produced. But how are theses sounds produced and represented? The answer to this question is the area of study of Phonetics. Generally, Phonetics is subdivided into three...  [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 TanzishAn 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. A large number of obstacles can arise for the students when learning a foreign language. Some of these problems are related to the contrast between the mother language and the learned language. About the differences between L1 and L2, there is plenty of research in the field of contrastive linguistics. Moreover, regarding that topic, many papers can be found...  [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 Lindong 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. Japan is currently going through a transitionary period in the government’s approach to the promotion of English ability among younger generations of Japanese. Until recently, elementary schools had not treated English as a core subject with reading and writing elements, and the focus of middle and high school English classes had been largely skewed towards...  [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 Zhuqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'an 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. English language and Chinese language have their own specific phonetic systems. Learners of a second language can not avoid the influence of the phonetic system of their mother tongue. Understanding the differences and similarities between the mother tongue and the second language can provide great help to learners of a second language. This essay looks at some of...  [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]

  Leslie is a Canadian English teacher at a junior high school in the Japanese countryside. In this TESOL review, Leslie tells us she is looking to open her own English language day care centre at her home and with this in mind she took the 120-hour certificate course with ITTT as well as the 50-hour young learners course to bring her qualifications up to date. Hopefully for Leslie this will be the first step on a rewarding career as the owner of a successful English language school in Japan. 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...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shouche Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? 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 my experience teaching elementary and junior high school level English in Japan, several different pronunciation problems appear frequently. The Japanese phonemic inventory is smaller than English’s phonemic inventory, and the sounds present in each language differ from each other quite dramatically. Because of this, it can be difficult for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xundian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiaogan 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 the last years English has become more and more popular worldwide. In most countries, children start learning the second language at an early age. Also in Turkey the number of schools, universities and language centers where it is possible to learn English has increased significantly. Nevertheless, despite all the efforts and a considerable presence of foreign...  [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 Huagong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jiaozuo 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 skills, as important it is in communication, is apparently the most overlooked feature when teaching the English language. One reason that makes it difficult to teach is that it varies extensively based on the mood of the speaker, the situation and context, and it essentially seems impossible to standardize. However, there exists general guidelines and...  [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 Huanbaochanyeyuan? 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. Problems for Learners in the Republic of Korea (Problems for learners in a country of your choice) Patrick A. Bradfield March 10, 2020 For much of the 1980’s the author taught English, to adult learners, in the Republic of Korea (herein after ’Korea’) on a part-time basis. This experience included several formats and forums including: volunteer work...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaoyan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangyang Shi — Xiangfan? 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 piece will discuss the difficulties faced by Japanese learners of English in regards to English pronunciation and suggest methods to help learners in different age groups overcome them. It posits that most difficulties stem from the differences in phonology between the English alphabet and the Japanese kana system. While the English alphabet is...  [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 Shijianfang Zhen? 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. This unit taught me and made me think about just how complicated pronunciation of the English language is. Whilst it comes naturally to a native English speaker it is an intricate system for someone learning English to master. The unit showed me the importance of focusing on pronunciation and different techniques by which to teach it. It also exposed me to the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Limin? 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. English language education (ELE) in Japan has gone through many changes in the last two decades to improve the country’s rank on privately administered English language proficiency tests such as the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). According to EF Education First, an international education company that specializes in teaching languages, Japan is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Charisu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tongliao 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. Difficulties of learning English in Turkey Turkey is a country in Europe and Asia. The educational system in Turkey is different compared to Europa, for example. I am a person who is born and raised in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, there is a theoretical and practical study. In Turkey, this is missing, and there is only an academic education with minimum...  [Read more]

Phonetics has been defined by Roach (1992) as the 'scientific study of speech' (Roach, 1992: 81.) It is concerned with how speech sounds are formed, how we use them in our spoken language and how we can record these speech sounds using written symbols. Phonology on the other hand has been defined by Roach (1992) as 'the study of the sound systems of languages' (Roach, 1992: 82.) According to Roca and Johnson (1999), the way in which we speak is somewhat similar to playing a recorder. This is because when you play a recorder you have to blow air from your lungs, as you do when you speak. However, to play a tune, you cannot simply blow air into the recorder; you must have your fingers over specific holes. Therefore, when we speak, we have to interfere with the air that comes out of our...  [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]

  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 GAofeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? 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. Topic #37 - pronunciation problems in a country of your choice What are the pronunciation challenges faced by L2 English learners in Mexico? Spanish speakers from Mexico face a number of challenges for acquiring successful pronunciation skills in English. Many students here will have had at least some exposure to English through media and contact...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shizuishan Shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| In this unit we stress the importance of pronunciation and different methods used to teach students the phonology of sentences Dear Sir/Ma'am, The unit "Teaching Pronunciation and Phonology" finished This unit covers a range of topics related to pronunciation and phonology in the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dajing 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. There are several reasons why every teacher who wishes to teach abroad should complete a TEFL Course. A teacher can learn valuable information about theories, methods, and techniques. There is useful information about teaching a new languages that include tenses, productive skills, pronunciations, and phonology. The course also touches on teaching special groups that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BAtAn 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 one of the most advanced and powerful countries in the world, and has a close relationship with English speaking countries like the US and Australia. Huge cities spread across the country, many of them are centers of international businesses and some of the most popular destinations of global tourism. One can imagine the importance of the international...  [Read more]