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But phonetics and phonology are not only about individual sounds...

Some teaching techniques

Drilling

Tongue twisters

sounds comparison

Noticing

Phonetics, phonology and its importance in English language teaching and acquisition

Phonolo... what?!

INTONATION

meaning

STRESS

tone of voice

It means that English speakers make some syllables and words

RHYTHM

LOUDER, LONGER and HIGHER

MUSICALITY

Stress means emphasizing!

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CONNECTED SPEECH

LINKING

In order to go on, it is important to know the meaning of these two keywords:

PHONOLOGY and PHONETICS.

Elivelton Domingos | UFPE | Letras

elivelton.domingos@hotmail.com

Phonetics

Rhythm

Phonology

Function words

Content words

1. Articles (a, the)

2. Conjunctions (and, but)

3. Prepositions (of, to)

4. Pronouns (he)

5. Auxiliary verbs (did)

Syllable stress

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Word stress

1. Main verbs

2. Nouns

3. Adjectives

4. Adverbs

5. Negatives

6. WH- questions

7. interjections

Content words bring the meaning and must be stressed.

Function words are weaker and tend to disappear when speaking.

I HAVE to GO to SCHOOL.

It's NOT the BEST iDEa.

Syllable stress

It's essential to mind your intonation in order to express the correct meaning of what you want to say.

It is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, that is, the performance, the execution.

PHOtograph

phoTOgrapher

Word stress

It is concerned with the abstract, grammatical characterization of systems of sounds or signs. It analyzes the pattern forms of phonemes.

I love you!

I love you! (He doesn't!)

I love YOU!

(I don't love her.)

I LOVE you!

(And I want you to know this.)

English is a stressed-timed language!

It approaches, for instance, the different accents and variations of the pattern form.

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/activities/phonemic-chart

Some recommended books

English Phonetics and Phonology, by Peter Roach.

How to teach pronunciation, by Gerald Kelly and Jim Scrivener.

References:

English File, by Clive Oxenden, et al.

TRUBETZKOY, Nikolai. Grundzüge der Phonologie (published 1939), translated by C. Baltaxe as Principles of Phonology, University of California Press, 1969

KELLY, Gerald; SCRIVENER, Jim. How to teach pronunciation. 1. ed. Essex: Pearson Longman, 2000.

ROACH, Peter. English Phonetics and Phonology Fourth Edition: A Practical Course. 4. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Phonemes of English. Disponível em: <http://www.azlifa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Phonemes%20of%20English.pdf> Acesso em: 1 jun. 2013.

Phonemic Chart. Disponível em: <http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/activities/phonemic-chart> Acesso em: 30 mai. 2013.

A VOWEL LETTER CAN REPRESENT DIFFERENT VOWEL SOUNDS: HAT [hæt], HATE [heit].

The Italian man who went to Malta

Should we teach it?

Phonemes

HOW?

SHIP

CHEAP

SHEEP

CHIP

The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

e.g.: A student says:

She is very intelligent, isn't she?

(asking for confirmation, I know she is intelligent.)

I don't like fruit and veGEtables.

He doesn't know about his father, does he?

(asking for confirmation, but I don't know whether he knows or not.)

Teacher corrects and says the correct form:

I don't like fruit and VEgetables.

Syllable stress can be expressed and taught!

important

Some sounds...

This is the name given to the symbols used to characterize the

A little bit of history...

There are some sounds which are worth the attention, such as the ones we don't have in Portuguese:

sounds.

different

  • Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1939) defines phonology and phonetics comparing them to Saussure's dichotomy: langue and parole.

girl

logical

cat, ask, have.

favorite

  • unstressed syllables;

The phonemes are also divided between vowels and consonants.

  • can occur in all the vowels.

then, though, this.

}

think, throw, thumb.

Thank you very much! :D

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FORK = FUCK

BEACH = BITCH

PISS = PIECE = PEACE

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