Phonetic

  A better way to go about imparting how to make sounds or what sounds are utilized in a word, is this international phonemic alphabet. Now we have as mentioned one symbol being used in all the words which share that same sound. Now once we get a little bit more familiar with our phonemic alphabet we can also show how different our different sounds can be as in this symbol for ?ooh?, this symbol for ?ow? and this symbol for ?uh?. 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...  [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]

  Now let's take a look at how we go from traditional spellings into the phonemic spellings. The first step in this process is identifying each unit of sound or each phoneme within a word. Let's look at bet, bit, but, and bought. The only difference in each one of these words is in the vowel sound. We have bet, bit, but and bought. Each word simply uses three sounds. Now we have photo. That's four phonemes. Wow we have taxi. That's five phonemes. We have unite with a hidden phoneme in there being the ?y? sound before anything else. Those are five phonemes as well and now we have a longer word: chemistry. Let's give that a shot. That's eight phonemes used in the word chemistry. Now once we've isolated each sound we want to assign a phoneme for each one of those sounds let's do that...  [Read more]

  "As mentioned before our four words here all are similar in using the ?b? and ?t? sounds at the end. So we know that those phonemes will be used in spelling each one of those words phonetically. Now what we're left to do is assign a phoneme for our vowel sounds. So if we analyze the word, it's ?e? as in bet. We look at our chart, we see the phoneme which corresponds to that sound and that happens to be the standard ?e? that we all recognize. Here, bet phonetically looks very similar to bet in the Roman script. Now let's take a look at ?i? bit. Now we look at our chart and we see that this symbol represents the ?i? sound and that resembles a capital I not a lowercase I but a capital I and so we've arrived at bit. Now with ?but? we have to find the sound and that corresponds to...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Washington? Are you interested in teaching English in Smithfield, Washington? Check out our opportunities in Smithfield, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Phonetics is key to any language. Without understanding the phonetic alphabet, we would have a much harder time distinguishing phonemes and have less of an understanding of where stresses...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New York? Are you interested in teaching English in Galway, New York? Check out our opportunities in Galway, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Phonetics is the study of speech sounds. • We are able to segment a continuous stream of speech into distinct parts and recognize the parts in other words.It deals with the configurations of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Kentucky? Are you interested in teaching English in Crestview Hills, Kentucky? Check out our opportunities in Crestview Hills, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! I've always been attracted by phonetics and how it works. I love phonetic transcriptions, stressed words, etc etc. I always care a lot about that cause i think that is almost...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Pennsylvania? Are you interested in teaching English in Lindsay, Pennsylvania? Check out our opportunities in Lindsay, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! The title of unit 13 “Teaching Pronunciation & Phonology” sums up well this often neglected part of language and all of its important sub-topics. The first order of business in this...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in KwaZulu Natal? Are you interested in teaching English in Uvongo, KwaZulu Natal? Check out our opportunities in Uvongo, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Wow, I can't believe I was actually reading phonetic scripts, and making some sort of sense and logic with it, felt I was taking up latin..excellent teaching and review of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Indiana? Are you interested in teaching English in Compton, Indiana? Check out our opportunities in Compton, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Phonetics is one of the most important, complex, and least taught and understood aspects of teaching english. In english there are many regional accents, however in general there are some common...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New York? Are you interested in teaching English in Waterford, New York? Check out our opportunities in Waterford, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 13 was all about the phonetics and pronunciation of words. It was very interesting to learn the concepts and what is behind each word. I never learnt this type of stuff before and learning...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Georgia? Are you interested in teaching English in Thunderbolt, Georgia? Check out our opportunities in Thunderbolt, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this lesson, I learned many things about pronunciation and phonology. Intonation is the variation in volume pitch and it has three different types and it is the rise-fall it mainly...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Indiana? Are you interested in teaching English in Hollowayville, Indiana? Check out our opportunities in Hollowayville, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Phonology indicates the whole sound system though the terms phonetics and phonology are used interchangeably.I learnt that intonation is considered the variation in volume and pitch in a...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Wisconsin? Are you interested in teaching English in Birch, Wisconsin? Check out our opportunities in Birch, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! As a non native speaker, I found this lesson in extreme helpful. Normally, when taught a language, phonetics are usually corrected by repeating a sentence or word several times. But learning the...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in California? Are you interested in teaching English in Compton, California? Check out our opportunities in Compton, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this unit I learnt about teaching english phonology and pronunciation. I found out how different phonetics can be produced with the human voice and how to produce those sounds. Intonation...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Bassett, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Bassett, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! When teaching a language one of the key components is pronunciation and phonology. I found this unit extremely helpful as I have never really experienced teaching with phonetics, I have taught basic...  [Read more]