ENGL 277 Chapter 10: Notes
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Teaching english as a second or foreign language. Thought that they were judge by the way they spoke. Believed the teacher treated him in a sense of inferior because of muttering. Embarrassed to repeat phrases because people keep asking him what he meant, lacked clarity in words. Accent is a filter through which second-language speakers are viewed and frequently discriminated against. Sound system of english is broken down into two. Global aspects such as stress, rhythm, and intonation. Known as the suprasegmental features or prosody. Sound system has been described and taught in building block fashion- How a final consonant sound can be linked to the following syllable. Speakers use pauses and intonation to divide speech into listener-friendly chunks. Speakers use pauses to divide speech into meaningful chunks , called thought groups. I was speaking to him/ on the phone yesterday. I was speaking to/ him on the/ phone yesterday.
