The Awareness of Phonetics in ELT

AbstractThe most distinctive feature of a language that makes it different from another language is it's ‘sound scheme’. Phonetics began a century ago in foreign language teaching. It offers the means to develop good pronunciation through enhanced awareness of relevant aspects of speech. How beneficial it will be depends on motivation and long term goals,Comparing with most European languages, English is not a phonetic language because words can have structural vowel letters and pronounced in different ways. Inherently, studying pronunciation may be difficult, but if we reduce everything which is difficult we may end up doing very little with language learning.This study clarifies the consciously use of phonetics in ELT and give useful methods to practice phonetics in long term goals