UNIT 3 PHONOLOGY

                                                                    
                                                                      UNIT 3 PHONOLOGY

Phonology is the study of the sound features. It is an essential part of the language because it is a subject where pupils learn to pronounce words for example word stress, sentence stress and intonation, all of these can help students to distinguish from one sound to another one. Actually, many English books have the pronunciation part to practice with  the whole class guided by the professor, firstly it is compulsory to practice vowels ans consonats sounds isolated because it help them to get familiar with basic sounds and then professor can teach entirely pronunciation of the words. Moreover consonants have two types of sounds such as voiced (spoken using the vibration of our voice /b/,/d/,/g/ ) and unvoiced (spoken without using our voice /p/ t// /k/ ). Furthermore, stress is used to notice if the word has high or less energy at the moment to produce the sound. Teachers must be careful when they decide to teach pupils connected speech, so it can bring problems for them it happens especially with contractions like (do not = don´t), (she is = she´ s), if we pay attention on that the pronunciation is different when we join words. In adittion, to teach phonology is not so easy but not impossible try to find strategies to help them, nowadays people around the world speak English with a lot of  accent and it is difficult to understand them. As a future teacher I would like to create funny  ways to teach it, for example a corner phonology where pupils have the opportunity to practice pronunciation, also I will use minimal pairs book with pictures while a book has imagines they enjoy all the time to practice more and more and use a phonemic chart, all of the materials will  be used according the level of the students (ages,learning styles, ) 

                                                                      CORNER PHONOLOGY

                                                        MINIMAL PAIRS BOOKS

                                                             PHONEMIC CHART

                               REFERENCES FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Google Books,. (2015). Patterns in Child Phonology. Retrieved 18 April 2015, from https://books.google.com.ec/books?id=ztD1JKLln-AC&printsec=frontcover&dq=PHONOLOGY+FOR+CHILDREN&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0-IxVaTgFLTasAS274Fo&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=one

• Reading-tutors.com,. (2015). Retrieved 18 April 2015, from https://www.reading-tutors.com/tips/TH_Tips_PhonAware.pdf

• Reading Rockets,. (2013). Phonological and Phonemic Awareness. Retrieved 18 April 2015, from http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/phon