Janice Johnson and Maria Kozikowska - 14 December 2009
This paper was written by two students about the exciting and informative experience of studying phonetics at university.
Barry Heselwood - 7 November 2007
This report is from the 2nd meeting of the Phonetic Transcription Group held on 3 May 2007 in the Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds. Attendees represented a number of different perspectives and specialisms, including general phonetics, clinical phonetics and phonology, corpus linguistics, sociophonetics, English language.
Gillian Brown - 8 January 2003
A brief description is provided of the content of a master’s programme which focuses on preparing participants to teach English Language and/or Applied Linguistics at university level. An overview of the content shows the role of linguistic theory in the programme. A slightly more detailed account is given of the content of the phonology component to illustrate how linguistic theory relates to practical issues in language learning.
April McMahon - 13 November 2002
This article provides an overview of the issues involved in teaching sound change at undergraduate and graduate level.
- 18 October 2002
Set against the history of the relationship between phonetics and pronunciation teaching, this paper outlines the needs of both the teacher and the learner in terms of phonetic knowledge in today's multilingual classrooms. It suggests sources of information for consultation by teachers and refers to established research demonstrating the value of phonetics in pronunciation teaching and learning. It concludes by recommending an ideal case scenario and offers a number of useful web addresses with brief annotations for the benefit of teachers and learners.
Sara Howard - 11 October 2002
This article addresses issues in teaching and learning of Clinical Linguistics for students on degrees in general linguistics and language
Sara Howard - 11 October 2002
This article addresses issues in the teaching and learning of clinical linguistics for speech and language therapy (speech and language pathology) students.
Michael Ashby - 9 October 2002
Phonetics provides a scientific basis for pronunciation teaching in EFL (English as a Foreign Language). It is essential to the preparation of reference and teaching materials and highly desirable as an aspect of EFL teacher training.
Linda Shockey - 27 September 2002
Most Articulatory Phonetics courses involve learning to produce and transcribe the sounds represented in a phonetic alphabet. The advantage is that phoneticians have a very widely-understood system of representation. The drawback is that alphabetic systems do not lend themselves to the description of all phonetic phenomena.
