W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka

2 Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL Włodzimierz Sobkowiak School of English Adam Mickiewicz University

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Problems: IPA typography arrangement of symbols picture mnemonics phonetic keywords

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka IPA typography symbol size and position: symbol shape (chroneme):vs.

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Arrangement of symbols: vowels Articulatory arrangement?   Tense vs lax vowels? Other? 

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Arrangement of symbols: consonants By manner of articulation? Natural grouping? By place of articulation?

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Picture mnemonics 1  go or zielone światło?  zoo or elephant?  look & run or eyes & legs?  water or kropla?  van or car?

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Picture mnemonics 2 caption________Maciej parrotbird tiekoszula (P) thumbhand vaseflowers motherbaby yachtboat legfoot rightsign singersing caption________Maciej jazzsong chesshorse eggto do jajka (P) bullcow bootfoot computerkeyboard owlbird earhead touristcamera

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Phonetic keywords

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Pronouncing difficulty index The idea of the index is that it is a global numerical measure of the phonetic difficulty of the given English lexical item for Polish learners. The index combines: the most salient grapho-phonemic difficulties such learners are known to have reading English, i.e. mostly spelling pronunciation, some commonest phonemic L1-interference problems known from the literature and my own teaching experience, some of the notorious developmental L2-interference pronunciation errors observed in all learners of English regardless of their L1 background.

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Interference from Polish in PD index the three centring diphthongs, the mid central lax vowels, the velar nasal, the word-final voiced obstruents, the /-VnC-/ sequence (prone to end up as /   C/ in Polglish), the sequence voiced obstruent + /s/, as in absorb (prone to level to voiceless /s/), secondary stress (which is often ignored in Polglish), compounds (stress-wise difficult), interdentals /  / and /  /.

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Better keywords (PD-wise)? flower (PD=5)  face, fish, file (PD=0) shower (PD=5)  ship, shoe, shelf (PD=0) monkey (PD=4)  meal, meat, mill (PD=0) singer (PD=4)  bank, king, drink (PD=1)

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Conclusion To be truly facilitative, EFL phonetic transcription wallcharts must be seriously researched: pedagogically, lexicologically, psycholinguistically and graphically. Intuition alone is not enough!

W.Sobkowiak: Phonetic transcription wallcharts in EFL; Soczewka Questions? Comments? Thank you