Forum topic 6.1: Teaching pronunciation
What are phonetics and phonology? Why is studying them important for linguists and language teachers? How can you improve your teaching practices by using your knowledge of phonetics?
Regardless of race, humans are physically capable of producing a finite range of vocal or speech sounds. Each human language employs a subset of these sounds. Phonetics describes the articulatory and acoustic properties of speech sounds, whereas phonology studies how sounds interact in a given language.
To teach SL, it is critical to be able to impart how the discrete sounds of the SL are mechanically articulated. The learner will already know many of the sounds of the L2, however some sounds will be subtly or significantly different to sounds they have already mastered in their L1, and so to introduce new sounds or sufficiently demonstrate the distinction from L1 sounds that have an associated muscle memory, a descriptive language about language is necessary.
Western Washington University - www.wwu.edu
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test2materials/Phonology1.htm
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