Teaching Phonemics Awareness

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Teaching Phonemics Teaching PhonemicsAwarenessAwareness

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English Speech ArticulationEnglish Speech Articulation


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Fis PhenomenonThis is a story about a child who called his inflated

plastic fish a fis.

In an imitation of the childs pronunciation an adultobserver said,This is your fis .

child: No,my fis .

adult: Yes, This is your fis .child No, My fis !adult:Yes, thats what Im saying, Its your fis !child( now much irritated):Noooo, my fis !!!Adult: O.K, this is your fish .

Child: Yes, my fis .


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This phenomenon is known asThe fis phenomenon in Linguistics.

A child hears and recognizes much moresounds of a language than he can produce himself!


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Language is a human vocal noise (orthe graphic representation of thisnoise in writing) used systematically and conventionally for the purpose ofcommunication

(David Crystal, 1989)


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We are attempting to teach in the classroom what is normally___ and

perhaps ___ best learnt outside it .

(Donn Byrne Teaching Oral English

(1982) p.1)


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In order to achieve this uphill task a

teacher must have.3. BASIC THEORETICAL

KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANGUAGE

SKILLSmust be well equipped with2. BASIC TEACHING TECHNIQUES

AND STRATEGIES TO TEACHTHOSE SKILLS


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Sound & Symbol

PhoneticsThe branch of linguistics that deals

with speech sounds is called

Phonetics. PhonologyScientific study of the sound system

of a particular language is calledphonology.


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Phonology

Segmental Supra segmental

study of speech sounds by dividing into

small segments called phonemes

study those sound contrasts that extend

over more than one phoneme


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Phoneme

The minimal, meaningful unit of speech.minimal/h/ cannot be divided further

meaningfulbill /b I l/pill /p I l/t ill /t I l/

Phoneme can distinguish a meaning in alanguage.


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English Phonemes

Letters of the Alphabets: 26 Consonants: 21 Vowels: 5 Phonemes: 42 (British: 44) Consonant Sounds: 24 Vowel Sounds: 18 (British: 20)


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Phonemic Awareness

Recognizing the sound/symbolrelationship in a language is called itsphonemic or phonological awareness


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Articulation :


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Diphthongs

e/I / /o / /a I / / I / / /a


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:Consonants


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Teaching Phonemic

Awareness phonemic awareness must beaccompanied by grapheme awareness .

Instructions for KGs MUST include:


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teaching the shapes and sounds of thefirst 26 letters;

the two sounds each for c /s/ /k/ ,g /g/ /j/, and s /s/ /z/ ;

three sounds each for a /a:////ei/ ,u/ // //u:/ ;

two sounds for o /a://o / three sounds for y; /i:/ /a I / / /

and two sounds for e /e/ /i:/ and i / I //a I /.


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Grade 1 InstructionsAdditional sound-letter (phoneme-:grapheme) relationships, er, ir, ur, or, ee, ea ay/ai, ow/ou,ow/oa, aw/au, er/ur/ir,oy/oi, oo ,th , sh, ch , ng,nk, ar, ck,

,wh,ie/igh


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Teaching TechniquesPhoneme Isolation:.1 ((beginning,middle,or ending sound

CAT /c/ , // ,/ /t

:Phoneme Identification.2CAT, CORNER,K ITE, KETTLE,CAP


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(Sound Synthesis (Blending .3 Blending initial sound onto theremainder of the wordBlending isolated phonemes together

Blending syllables of a word together


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Sound-to-Word Matching.4

?Is this a /mmmm/at Is there a /p/ /p/ /p/ sound

?in cat What sound does cat start

?/with? /lllllll/or /k//k/ /k


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Onset and Rime.5

handbandland

sand

Onset: h,b,l,sRime: and

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