What is phonetics and phonology in English language teaching?
Phonetics is the study of speech sounds. Phonology is the study of the sound system of language. In teaching Enlish today, English is already devided into three circles, (1) Inner cirlce-mother tongue, (2) outer circle-second user, and (3) expanding circle-foreign user.
Why is the IPA important in learning English?
The IPA helps us to pronounce words accurately. Instead of relying on the written spelling of words, which does not always match the way we pronounce them, the phonetic alphabet describes the sounds of words (without reference to the letters of a language).
What is linguistic in English?
What is Linguistics?
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and its focus is the systematic investigation of the properties of particular languages as well as the characteristics of language in general.
1.Which is the correct IPA transcription for the word Fat?
- A) /’fæt/
- B) /’fi:t/
- C) /’fɪt/
- D) /’feɪt/
Ans: A