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Phonological Awareness for Developing Language Abilities - TEFL Blog
Thu, 13 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Phonological Awareness for Developing Language Abilities
Phonology involves studying how sounds are organized in a language to create meaning. It differs in every language as sounds are organized to create words, which are then organized in sentences.
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Understanding both phonology and phonetics is important when teaching language to others.
The English IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) utilizes symbols to represent single sounds.
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Top Reasons Why Rules of Pronunciation are Extremely Important for Teachers - TEFL Blog
Fri, 24 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Top Reasons Why Rules of Pronunciation are Extremely Important for Teachers
Many ESL teachers have never even heard of phonetics or phonology, yet they use these aspects of speech naturally when they speak. Phonetics and phonology are two areas of linguistics that study the sounds of language. Phonetics focuses on individual sounds, while phonology studies the features and combination of sounds (McMahon, 1-3). There are two reasons why ESL teachers need to know phonetics and phonology: first, it helps them to conceptualize English in a way that their students can understand; and second, it helps them to address their students' difficult pronunciation problems.
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Why Students Suffer from Pronunciation Issues?
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