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  1. Sounds of Speech provides a comprehensive understanding of how each of the speech sounds of American English, Spanish, and German are formed. It includes animations, videos, and audio samples that describe the essential features of each of the consonants and vowels of these languages. English Sounds of Speech is especially useful for students ...

    • Sounds of Speech

      Se refiere a los sonidos que se articulan por la accción del...

    • Phonology

      Phonology. The phonology curriculum emphasizes current...

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    Despite the fact that researchers have found correlations between phonetics instruction and the development of phonemic awareness and English literacy (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998), phonetics instruction has had a somewhat mixed reputation in English language teaching (ELT). Furthermore, the relative importance of teaching segmental and suprasegme...

    The main function of this application is to explain and demonstrate how the articulatory anatomy works to produce the individual sounds of English (Spanish and German applications are also available). From the “Sounds of Speech” homepage (see Figure 1), users of the web-based application start by selecting which language they want to explore from t...

    Although, this program can be very useful, it is not without limitations. First, while the video demonstrations are accessible to learners at all levels of proficiency, efficient use of the resources found on the website requires an understanding of rather advanced vocabulary; in order to quickly find the sound they are looking for, learners (and t...

    In sum, Phonetics: The sounds of American Englishprovides very high quality visual representations of the production of various sounds. These representations and the accompanying explanations are very well done, but it will be up to teachers to figure out how to use them in their pronunciation work with learners. Teachers will also need to guide le...

    Snow, C. E., Burns, M. S., & Griffin, P. (Eds.). (1998). Preventing reading difficulties in young children. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

    Ryan Eller is a graduate student in the Instructional Science and Technology program at California State University Monterey Bay. He began his ESOL career teaching online and is an Instructional Consultant at a private learning center in California.

  2. This is a tutorial to help English Language Learners understand how to use the University of Iowa's fantastic Phonetics website.

    • 4 min
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    • Sarah Donovan