called ‘Working with Phonetics’. Students taking this exit level module are already phonetically accomplished –

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Faculty and students in the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory are linguists who want to describe the segmental and suprasegmental phonetic properties of languages, to relate these phonetic descriptions to phonological properties, and to explore the broader theoretical relation of phonetics to phonology

Abstract: A laboratory course for undergraduate students of phonetics has been developed

This study explores the effect of an e-mail that contains phonetic abbreviations and acronyms on subsequent evaluations of students and their writing ability. A sample of 87 (36 male, 51 female) college students, who assumed the role of a college professor, read a student e-mail, evaluated

Abstract. This article is devoted to pedagogical proficiency of would be teachers of English. It embraces the aims of teaching a FL, content of teaching – whom to teach, what to teach, how to teach the linguistic materials of phonetics, lexis and grammar. For this case the fresher students ought

has been added to what he wrote. Lately, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has published a detailed and comprehensive database called KACST Arabic Phonetics Database (KAPD) [1]. KAPD gives almost all the details of the articulatory mechanism of Arabic sounds. It contains more than

. In examining that requirement, we found both in perception (31 listeners) and in generation (129 college students) that phonetically ambiguous pairs were not confusingly reversible. Listeners of clearly presented tokens were unable to identify pair members (89 % failure) except when the alternatives were made

1 Introduction The range of problems that a student of phonetics can experience in a classroom when dealing with sounds he or she has never heard before is huge. And the difficulties seem to multiply when practicing on one’s own. Although individual practice tends to be seen as the ideal way

This paper is a report on an experiment carried out with French students of English as a second language. It aims to test the validity of combining a multimedia tool with a constructivist approach to phonetics teaching at university level.