In this unit, Phonology is the main topic. Personally, I like the topic because learning how sounds produce a language is amazing. Each language has different phonemes which helps the development of the language. In this unit, I learned some words thatI have meet before but I had forgotten. Weak forms is one the learned words. These are unstressed forms of words.Thus, we review about stress which is the pronunciation os a syllable in a word. I notice that there are different kind of stress like: primary or main stress, secundary, sentence, and word stress. All of them are different and obviously are pronunce different. Some of them are stronger than others.
In the future as teacher. it is very important to know phonology. I don't mean to teach phology but this is important in order to know a word. Nobody is perfect and know everything so teacher someday have to face an unknow word and then through phonology one can avoid an error. In addition, the correct pronunciation is useful for learnes in order to have good self-correction or when working of groups peer-correction what usually comes with peer-feedback
The following video will help to understand better phonology:
REFERENCES FOR ADITTIONAL INFORMATION:
- YouTube,. (2015) Intro to Phonology: Phonemes & Allophones (lesson 1 of 4). Retrieved 7 May 2015,from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCx2hCxvHQ&list=PLIewPcwUBZLGZ553RYjQGJlK4Z1QZJa8B
- Dohlus Katrin,. (2010) Phonology and Phonetics: Influences on Loanword Adapation T. Retrieved 7 May 2015, from: https://books.google.com/books?id=YqEF_b-H9L8C&pg=PA129&dq=phonology+importance&hl=es&sa=X&ei=92pNVfzHGsOcNs73gfAO&ved=0CB0Q6AEwA
- Lacy Paul,. (2007)The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Retrieved 7 May 2015, from: https://books.google.com.ec/books?id=7sxLaeZAhOAC&pg=PA537&dq=phonology+importance&hl=es&sa=X&ei=92pNVfzHGsOcNs73gfAO&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=phonology%20importance&f=false
I totally agree with you Crishtian, Phonology is amazing in the way of learning all of characteristics of sounds, phonemes, stress, intonation patterns, specially in the way of communicate in an accurately way with others. I consider that Phonology need to be include in teacher´s syllabus, to familiarize students with the focus form of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the fact that an English teacher must know phonology in order to teach hisor her students. I think that Peer-evaluation, peer-correction, peer-feedback and self-correction are good techniques for improving students. pronunciation I would take these techniques in account. About the video it contains basically pronunciation for example minimal pairs it is interesting because it also show us how to pronounce those.
ReplyDeleteThank you!