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:
(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 20006. Conclusion: more research
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