Phonology in Teaching English

Linguistics is an important tool to understand the meaning behind the language. Some of its branches are context-related, but the others are not. Phonetics and phonology are free-context. These two are talking about sound, where this book is focused on. The purpose of this book is to introduce the phonology to the student. By knowing the process of sound, they could become better speaker of listener. Thus, we are not the native speaker of English, whithout knowing the tone or the assimilation of some words will make us confuse. That’s why phonology and phonetics becomes important on this case. To help the students find another issues covered in this book, there will be exercise at the end of the book and some link of the video that related to the topic. The exercise will enable the students to check their knowledge of the main ideas or important terms introduced in the book. Meanwhile, the link of the video will provide an opportunity to figure out about how the patterns are applied in daily life. The students wiil be ready to perceive more about the use of the pattern in native speaker way of speaking. This book is made from many references that can be found in the internet. Some of the references are not free, but the sudents still can find the related references with free e-book. This book is not complete edition to cover the whole phonoloy material. There is a lot of lack in this book.Therefore, it will be a quite useful input to have feedback about the content of this book