TEFL Module 1

Non-native learners struggle with pronounciation

"Th" and unpredictability e.g. yesterday - tomorrow.

What alphabet does the English language use?

Latin

Inflection

The extra letter or letters added to nouns, verbs and adjectives in their different grammatical forms e.g. look, looks, looked, looking.

13 Characteristics of English Language

1. Fairly easy to learn 2. Latin Alphabet 3. Simple Inflection 4.Receptiveness 5. Heterogeneousness 6. (Generally) fixed word order 7. No markings on letters (e.g. diacritics) 8. Pronounciation 9. Continuous Tense 10. Articles (a, an, the) 11. Phrasal Verbs 12. Non-tonal 13. Sound and spelling

Diacritics

a mark that is placed over, under, or through a letter in some languages to show that the letter should be pronounced in a particular way) such as the umlaut (¨) in German or the circumflex in French (^)

Phrasal Verb

an idiomatic phrase consisting of a verb and another element, typically either an adverb, as in break down, or a preposition, for example see to, or a combination of both, such as look down on.

What differentiates a tonal language?

pitch (the degree of highness or lowness of a tone) is used to distinguish word meaning

English's generally fixed word order

subject verb object