Topic 2: INTRODUCTION OF PHONOLOGY

Actually we had already learned this topic in our foundation program. But there only the basic we all well know. This time the topic will become deeper then we had learned before. As in an introduction, we had learn about the speech organ. To enhance our understanding about this speech organ, we all are individually act out how the speech organ work correctly. Usually malaysian are hard to pronoun the english word correctly, but through this topic, we will know how our organ pronoun it correctly. Its helps a teacher to teach their student in the correct way. Not only know the word but how to speech out is most important.

after we know about articulate organ, we are told to find at least three tongue twister phrase. A difference tongue twister helps us to develop and enrich our pronunciation. Our group have choose three tongue twister which are:

A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies

I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.

A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.

Next lecture is about minimal pair. Minimal pairs are the set of two words that are only differentiated by one tiny sound. If we can distinguish these tiny sounds, it will help us with pronunciation and comprehension. This time, each group required to list down five sets of minimal pairs for initial, medial and final part. From this activity, we will know the different between two words although its sound is closely same. style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#1A1A1A;mso-themecolor:background1; mso-themeshade:26;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">

• lit - light	read - red	sing - sang
  bed - bad	saw - sought	boot - boat
  soot - suit	but - boot	why - way
  know - now	wreath - wreathe	leak - lick
  look - luck	sock - suck	vest - vast
  cod - card	dug - dog	thirst - first
  fair - fear	pay - bay	read - lead
  need - mead	zoo - sue	near - ne'er
  catch - cash	azure - assure	jet - chet
  leige - lease	whistle - thistle	beige - bays
  fur - fear	care - chur	noon - nun

from all this lesson, i know that not easy to be a good speaker if our pronunciation is not so good. I must take a lot of effort by doing some extra homework by searching in the internet how to get the correct pronunciation.