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Advantages and Disadvantages of Teaching Phonetics - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
This will be a discussion aimed at presenting both the advantages and disadvantages of teaching phonetics. We will show how teaching phonetics help create approachability and reinforce language similarities. Inversely we will look at how English suffers from inconsistent phonetic rules and the conflict between words as written and words as said. We will also look at methods to mitigate these issues.
Self-awareness
Noticing language similarities
English rules
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