Phonetic Alphabet Symbols

  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]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Stavropol, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Stavropol, 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! This unit suggests some effective ways to teach pronunciation and phonology. Despite the difficulties teachers and students might encounter in mastering these fields, phonetic and phonology are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in United Kingdom? Are you interested in teaching English in Bradford, United Kingdom? Check out our opportunities in Bradford, 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, we learn about pronunciation, probably the most overlooked aspect of English teaching. The unit exposed subjects concerning phonology in a broad and rich perspective:...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Argentina? Are you interested in teaching English in Parana, Argentina? Check out our opportunities in Parana, 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! This unit has brought the clarify the knowledge about Pronunciation and Phonology. Phonology has included stress, rhythm, and intonation on utterances as well as concentrating on the international...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Philippines? Are you interested in teaching English in Batangas City, Philippines? Check out our opportunities in Batangas City, 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! Pronunciation is often not taught in the classroom because teachers are not confident in their ability to teach it, but pronunciation is very important for students to learn. If a...  [Read more]

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  There are certain words that need backshifting when using reported speech. In this video we look at backshifting places in reported speech. This video is specifically aimed at teaching reported speech in an ESL setting. 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 next. This unit was about the pronunciation and the phonology of the English language and how to teach it to student. Pronunciation is something that most students find very difficult in the...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Philippines? Are you interested in teaching English in Santa Cruz Laguna, Philippines? Check out our opportunities in Santa Cruz Laguna, 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 unit was about Teaching Pronunciation and Phonology. The topics of intonation and stress were discussed as well as the techniques for indicating and teaching them. The...  [Read more]

  Here's an idea for teaching the present perfect continuous tense. However in this activity what the students will be doing, is comparing and contrasting this tense with the present perfect tense. This is something that a teacher will want to do after they've explored both tenses and because both tenses are quite confusing, we'll ask the students to compare and contrast the two, making sure that they can tell the difference. In this activity, the teacher will have cut out each individual card. The teacher will distribute the cards to the students and after a minute has gone by, the teacher will then ask the students to fold their cards over and get into a pair. One student in the pair will then present a certain result and ask the student to form the question. Here, with the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Saint Petersburg, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Saint Petersburg, 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 airflow, vibration, and movement of mouth is determined by the sounds and pronunciations of words. Teaching this lesson is basic to the ear but reading the phonemic alphabet may...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Kuwait? Are you interested in teaching English in Kuwait City, Kuwait? Check out our opportunities in Kuwait City, 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 thirteen broaches aspects of pronunciation and phonology in English language teaching, thereby addressing what for me has always been the greatest challenge in learning foreign languages...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in India? Are you interested in teaching English in Porbandar, India? Check out our opportunities in Porbandar, 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 more about pronunciation and phonology.It taught me techniques on indicating and teaching intonation , as well as techniques on indicating and teaching stress for words.I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Japan? Are you interested in teaching English in Kakogawa, Japan? Check out our opportunities in Kakogawa, 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 covers how to teach pronunciation, intonation, stress, etc to students. The charts that showed stress on syllables as well as the arrow diagrams for intonation were extremely helpful for me to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Brazil? Are you interested in teaching English in Joinville, Brazil? Check out our opportunities in Joinville, 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! This chapter had a lot of information teaching about the basics of teaching phonology and pronounciation, with basic fundamentals of human speech. Learning about stress, rhythm, and intonation is...  [Read more]

Home / TESOL USA / TESOL Online in Michigan - Teacher English Jobs / Shelbyville, Michigan TESOL Online & Teaching English Jobs Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Michigan? Are you interested in teaching English in Shelbyville, Michigan? Check out our opportunities in Shelbyville, 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 is about...  [Read more]

  Here are helpful tips how to identify the various future tenses in the English language and complete worksheets successfully. The video also helps you to structure an effective lesson around the future tenses in an EFL classroom around the world. 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 next. Unit 13 introduced the new topic of ?teaching pronunciation and phonology? and the first aspect discussed was pronunciatio. I have learnt that pronunciation is...  [Read more]

  In this video we'll be looking at the international phonemic alphabet and how it's used in the classroom. There are other phonemic alphabets but this is the most popular and the system, which is most widely used. You may have seen some of these symbols before as any good dictionary will supplement standard English spellings with the phonemic spellings to aid in pronunciation practice. Here we have a situation where we have what are called phonemes and each phoneme represents a sound within the English language. How is this helpful? Well, what it does is help students understand how to say words rather than simply relying on the often archaic English spellings. To illustrate this point let's for a moment put ourselves in the shoes of our students when trying to understand how to...  [Read more]

  Now an example of a straight arrow ESA lesson for our engage phase. What we're going to do is to show the students a video of animals and they are going to say what they like about those animals and try to create a list of some more. So, remember what we're trying to do here is to get the students talking and thinking in English. We're using a typical engage activity, which is to create a list and we try to make sure that all the students have been involved in some way in creating those lists. Moving on to the study phase, the first part is going to be the board work and the teacher is going to try to elicit from the students what each of those animals can and can't do. Typically, what the students will say is just single words, so "run," "jump," "fly," etc. What we would then...  [Read more]