PHONOLOGY
This unit is about phonology. Phonology is the study of the sound features used in a language to
communicate a meaning. In English these features include phonemes, word stress, sentence stress and intonation.
In phonology all these symbols are phonemes which are often show in a chart,
called the phonemic chart.
This chart
groups the sounds into vowels, diphthongs
and consonants (which are
divided in voiced and unvoiced sounds). Furthermore, word stress, sentence stress and intonation are important, too at the
moment to learn phonology because with these features speakers change the level
of their voice to show meaning.
I will apply
phonology in the classroom through show the learners the phonemic chart because
it helps them to understand how they
must to pronounce a vowel, diphthong or a consonant and motivated them to
practice in hearing and recognizing sounds through listen to TV, radio
programmes, and some websites in English.
This video is very useful because shows how we must pronounce the consonants in order to have a good pronunciation.
References:
- Jakobson, R. (1962) The phonemic concept of distinctive features. In A. Sovijärvi and P. Aalto, eds. Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Mouton & Co. 440-455.
- Susan Anderson ( 2003) Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural languages.
I really like your idea showing a phonemic chart because it helps them to understand how they must to pronounce a vowel, diphthong or a consonant and motivated them to practice in hearing and recognizing sounds through listen to TV, radio programmes, and some websites in English.
ResponderEliminarAnd also is very important that a child has a notion of the language beginning from the sounds like a baby learning his mother tongue.