Linguistics, Pronunciation and Phonics!!!!!!!! (and the villagers rejoice)

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Linguistics, Pronunciation and Phonics!!!!!!!!
(and the villagers rejoice)
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Linguistics, Pronunciation and Phonics is brought
to you by T-Time English.
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Goals!

• A brief intro to linguistics.
• Use linguistics to look at why certain problems
  occur and/or reoccur.
• Give examples of solutions to use in the
  classroom.

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Intro to Linguistics (??)

• Scientific study of language.
• It is a sub-discipline(?????????) of
  anthropology(???).

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Parts of Linguistics

• Phonetics (???)
• Phonology (???)
• Morphology (???)
• Syntax (???)
• Semantics (???)
• Many other insignificant yet wildly fascinating
  subsections exist, however, we have neither the
  time nor the desire to waste any of our precious
  70 minutes on them.

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Phonetics and Phonology (No, not
fun-ology)

• Phonetics Study of how speech sounds are made.
• Phonology The organization of language sounds.

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Morphology and Syntax

• Morphology Study of the structure of words.
• Syntax Study of how words combine to make
  grammatical phrases and sentences.
• ex. Why what we wrote above makes any sense to
  anyone

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Semantics

• Semantics This is the study of the meaning of
  words.
• (Dont worry. There is no meaning behind putting
  this topic on a slide of its own.)
• Bad joke time Which came first- semantics or its
  meaning?

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Phonics? ???????Fuonikkusu

• A-E-I-O-U vs. ?????
• t-o vs. ?
• E-n-g-l-i-s-h vs. ????

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Possible solutions

• Pronunciation with Talia
• Phonics with Ted

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Pronunciation

• Mirror exercise.
• Silent word game.
• Mouth diagrams. (Thats right. Shes going to
  draw in your mouth. So stick out your tongue.)
• Gestures.
• Letter trees. (If you plant Alphabits, they will
  grow into a tree of that letter.)

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Phonics

• Bb, Cc, Dd, Gg, Pp, Tt, Vv, Zz
• Ff, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ss, Xx
• Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu
• Hh, Jj, Kk, Qq, Rr, Ww, Yy

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??Time!!!

• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember.
  Involve me and I learn.
• -Benjamin Franklin

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Morphology and SyntaxAm you likes a dogs?

• I am like baseball.
• I have a brothers.
• Do she likes apples?
• Because its fun.
• I want be a teacher.
• Next I say him singer favorite.
• Whats a verb? ???????????
• Baseball makes me hard.

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Tackling the problems (not the students)

• Involve the students in theirlearning.
• Correct the problems at the start.
• English and Japanese are not compatible
  languages.
• Become your own student.
• Get creative- whether its phonics or grammar.

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Sentence Diagramming
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Were not gods so

• Now its your turn.
• See if you can use some of our examples and ideas
  to satisfy the grammar nazi and child within you
  all at once.
• Were sorry you dont have a lot of time but the
  one true god, Zane, only gave us 70 minutes.
  (Were sorry Allah, God, Shiva, YHVH, and Jebus.
  Dont strike us down.)

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Your missionThis slide will self-destruct in 30
seconds.

• Ex Because its fun.
• I have a brothers.
• This is the my book.
• She study to be a doctor.
• I am like baseball.
• I can English.
• This is the by Ken broken window.