Aspects of Teaching and Learning Phonetic Symbols

Aspects of Teaching and Learning Phonetic SymbolsThe teaching of pronunciation is described as "the Cinderella of language

teaching", i.e. she has never got to go to the ball. That tells the truth.

In contrast to those "princesses" — vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing

and speaking people usually think much of, this "humble lady" has long

been out of favour. But as a matter of fact, one's linguistic competence

depends in a certain measure on his pronunciation which, if is too bad to

communicate with other people, he will only be regarded as a failed

language learner. On the other hand, for an adult, it is not difficult to

enlarge the amount of vocabulary or enhance the knowledge of grammar. But

without a solid foundation of pronunciation at the early stage, it will be

beyond repair in case of fossilization. By this token, Teaching of

pronunciation deserves much more attention than we paid before.

This article ventures some personal ideas on the teaching of phonetic

symbols — the most basic element of pronunciation

I. Why do we have to learn phonetic symbols?

To learn or not to learn, that is not the question. The majority of

Chinese and foreign teachers think it is quite necessary.

In terms of teaching rules, learning phonetic symbols as early as possible

is a good way of reducing down the repetition as well as raising up the

memory of words . Those teachers are not baseless by saying that a large

number of students lag behind in Grade Two owing to their failure of

learning phonetic symbols in Grade One thus unable to expand their

vocabulary and improve their reading ability.

In aspect of teaching strategy, mastery of phonetic symbols at the initial

stage usually makes the students feel successful and confident because, in

a sense, they are alrea

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