This lecture was delivered as part of a conference on teaching English phonetics, held in Kalisz, on 13th December 2000. Abstract to be found here.

 


Phonetic wallcharts in EFL

 

1. Phonetic transcription choice: IPA

2. IPA typography in wallcharts: up and down, to and fro

3. IPA symbol clustering and layout: natural classes?

4. Picture mnemonics (Maciej – pilot study):

(a) word-icon mismatch

(b) rebuses

5. Keywords:

(a) imagibility (Paivio rating; Coltheart 981, Wilson 1988)

(b) pronouncing difficulty (PD index; Sobkowiak 1999, forthcoming)

(c) word frequency (BNC lemmas; Kilgarriff)

 

phonetic transcription wallcharts

EFL dictionaries*

old Cambridge

Cambridge

Oxford

CIDE

OALDCE4

Paivio mean

595

584

565

583

580

PD index mean

1.3

1.3

1.68

1.09

1.05

freq. median

25487

9603

7020

9901

16175

* Sobkowiak 2000

6. Conclusion: more research

Bibliography