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On Approaches to IPA Symbols Teaching/Learning

The aim of our talk is to discuss some important issues in IPA-symbol teaching and learning. When teaching IPA symbols, students are warned not to memorise them according to their previous knowledge of the alphabet, but rather as a completely new set of symbols (see e.g. Skandera, Burleigh 2011: 8). Students are usually told to remeber sound-symbol relations and are introduced to new symbols with their corresponding labels. But the question is what happens to those that are practically identical to the Roman alphabet graphemes? The focal point of this discussion will be to consider possible approaches to IPA terminology teaching at different levels of study. The approaches that are going to be mentioned/discussed are: a) sound – IPA symbol relationship (from the beginning to the advanced language proficiency), b) sound – IPA symbol – grapheme relationship (from the beginning to the advanced language proficiency, ), c) IPA usage (precise sound description – IPA symbol relationship (more advanced language users). Hopefully, the discussion will reveal other experiences of researchers, some specific cross-lingustic and cross-cultural aspects or, possibly, bring out some new concrete and pragmatic ideas for classroom use.

IPA, symbols, English, teaching, learning, approaches

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