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Apply Now!Home / TEFL Videos / TEFL Videos - Pronunciation and Phonology in the EFL Classroom - "Oh" Sound
Here we have a set of five words, which all share one sound: the ?oh? sound, as in ?go?, ?show?, ?dough?, ?note? and ?boat?. They?re five different spelling patterns to tell our students so they can identify when to make the ?oh? sound. We can have a simple letter ?o?, ?ow?, ?ough?, ?o? with the magic ?e? which turns our vowel into what we knew as long sounds and the ?oa? as in ?boat?. Now, for a non-native learner, perhaps they can handle something like this. They remember that these spelling combinations help to produce the ?oh? sound and they can go about their business looking at the words and memorizing this knowing that these spelling patterns will produce the sound ?oh?. Now that?s okay until we get to a situation where we can also have words like ?to?, ?cow? and also ?rough?. So the students has gone from knowing that these letters put together in these patterns will produce an ?oh? sound and now they?re confused by the fact that the same pattern can produce a different vowel sound here, it can produce a different vowel sound here and a different vowel sound here. Put this all together and we created a situation, which can become very confusing to our non-native learner. However, our international phonemic alphabet takes care of this problem by taking various spelling patterns and simplifying it into this symbol here.
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Unit 11 Teaching receptive skills covers basic information and advice on teaching reading and listening. This unit emphasizes the importance of teaching both skills equally since both are equally important. Some specific reasons for reading and listening are outlined and serve as a good reminder for teachers to keep in mind when planning lessons and activities. I especially liked the reminder to pre teach vocabulary since I sometimes forget to do that.This unit given me a refresher on the different Parts of Speech. Having already learned everything throughout grades 1-12, it was really interesting to revisit all the different concepts. I have rediscovered the unspoken rules used in day-to-day life, and the logical methods to classify the parts of speech. I now understand why non-English speakers find English to be such a difficult subject, as the language contains so many complex rules and patterns.
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