Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XintiAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhangye 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 the teaching of pronunciation and phonology. Phonology is the study, science analysis and classification of the physical properties of sounds. The term phonetics and phonology are often used interchangeable. Intonation is generally considered to be the variation in volume and pitch in a whole sentence whereas stress is more sentences with individual words. It carries a massage in a sentence .The normal pattern of intonation in a statement is the rise and fall intonation. Techniques for indicating and teaching intonation ? Nonsense words ? By gesture ? Humming or singing ? The board Stress: All multi-syllable words in English have one or more parts that are stressed but which part should it be ?one word has only one stress. We can only stress syllabus not individual vowels or consonant. Here are some examples. ? Stress on first syllables 2-syllables nouns-china, table 2-syllables adjectives-slender clever ? Stress on last syllables 2-syllable verbs-create, decide ? Stress on penultimate syllable ending in-ic-geographic, pathetic words ending in-sion and tion-television, competition. ? Stress on ante-penultimate syllable-third from end. ? words ending in cy,ty,phy and gy democracy, geology ? Words ending in-ive, relative, indicative. ? words ending in-al-critical, geological Compound words (words with two part) . For example nouns, the stress is on the first part-blackbird, greenhouse for compound adjectives, the stress is on the second part-bad tempered, old fashioned for compound verbs-understand overflow. Lack of stress in normal speech. There are more syllables without stress or unstressed than with stress. ? contrastive stress ? by gesture ? choral work ? the board ? stress marks Sound joining. There are four major ways that sounds can be joined together in English. They are as follows. ? linking ? sound dropping (t,d) ? sound changing ? extra lettering Phonemic symbols ? Consonants (voiced) vow ? /n/ nun/n^n/ ? /b/ big /big/ ? consonants (unvoiced) ? /h/ hot /hot/ ? /s/ sun /s?n/ ? vowels ? /I:/ see /sii/ ? /i/ sit /sit/ ? Diphthongs ? /ei/ game/geim/ ? /??/ no /n??/ Articulation explored more details in the following sections ? The speech organ includes ? the tongue-the alveolar ridge ? the laryning-the had palate ? the growth-the soft palate Places of Articulation ? Velar-labio-dental ? palatal-bilabial ? palatal-alveolar-glottal ? alveolar ? dental MANNERS OF ARTICULATION ? Plosive-affricate ? Fricative-approximant ? Nasal ? Lateral Teaching technique for the pronunciation of individual sounds. The teaching of individual sounds is good fun for the teacher and the students. Here are some activities that work well. ? Peer dictation ? your own mouth ? visuals ? phonemes ? Tongues twisters. When teaching pronunciation just as with other areas of the language, teachers must decide when to include pronunciation. Going through this unit, i have learnt the different ways through pronounciation can be taught.
