IPA and Phonics

 

Date: February 09th, 2024


In our fourth class, we move away from teaching methods as the main focus and move on to a topic that is equally revealing for anyone interested in learning or teaching a foreign language. We are talking about the IPA (International Phonetic Association).

In 1886, three scholars founded the International Phonetic Association: Henry Sweet, Wilhelm Vietor, and Paul Passy. They later developed the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). In my opinion, the idea of representing specific sounds with symbols is brilliant. Not too long ago, not everyone had easy access to the internet or television, so unless you were in a language class, you couldn't always know exactly how to pronounce a specific word because of the wide variety of sounds humans can produce.

The IPA was created to help students and teachers understand and teach the correct pronunciation of different sounds.

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