tesol 2014 presentation
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Grammar Focused
Phonics: A Multi-Skills
Approach to Pronunciatio
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Heidi Laidemitt, M.A. TESOL, B.A. Linguistics / [email protected] www.heideologies.wordpress.com
"Looks like we spend most of our time Inging ... You know, like sleeping, eating, running, climbing..." Dennis the Menace
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Inspiration
1. Reoccurring issues in productive skills
2. Phonology influences pronunciation (and orthography tries to capture it!)
3. History of English and orthography
4. Lack in pronunciation/phonics focus in curricula
5. Resistance to general “because that’s the way it is!” mentality
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Students and Background
ESL - English Academic Purposes, Adult Literacy, General English courses
Intensive English Setting Oral Communication Skills Phonics Classes Beginning Vocabulary + Phonics
Volunteer-Based Literacy Classes Low Literacy (including native
language)Disparity in Skills LearnersFluency-Accuracy Imbalanced LearnersLimited Native-Literacy LearnersBeginning Learners
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Overview of Upcoming Information
1. Theory / Linguistics Phonics Knowledge (throughout
presentation) Vocabulary Knowledge Morphology (Inflectional Morphemes)
2. Integrating Skills Activities Allomorphs + Activities
3. Building Essential Phonics Skills Vowels + Spelling Phonetics
4. Two Additional Activities with Inflectional Morphemes
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Explicit Phonics Teaching I find useful…
• Working Knowledge • Classification of consonants (see hand out) • Classification of vowels (see hand out)• Syllables (Monosyllabic, Multisyllabic words) • Stress Patterns
• Key Vocabulary • Consonant, Consonant Clusters, Vowels • Elements of phonology: Voiced, Voiceless, Fricative, Affricate,
Nasal, Liquid, Glide • Prefix, Root, Suffix • Word forms (noun, adjective, past participle, comparative,
etc.)
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Morphology
Grammatical tags to words
Identify parts of speech
Our focus: Inflectional Morphemes
Retrieved from: http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~packer/Courses/Psy598/Ling-Morphology.pdf
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Today’s Focus
Inflectional Morphemes
-s plural (s’, -en irregular)
-s third person singular present;
-’s – possessive (thought to possibly just be a “clitic”)
-ed/t - past tense;
-en past participles (-ed, -d, -t, -n, -ne, too)
-ing - present participle
-er comparative
-est superlative
And the confusion ensues…
-ing: Use for continuous aspect and verbal nouns
and
-ed: Use for perfect aspect and passive voice Participial phrases Adjectival participles
(sometimes are PURE adjectives)Adverbial participles
And then, irregular forms! But many of them have historical and phonological reasons!!!
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Focus on Word Endings
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Allomorphs
An allomorph is one morpheme that has different “surface” forms depending on phonological rules. “s” endings / “ed” endings
Spelling / Pronunciation disparity.
And how about that double consonant spelling convention?
pin pinned tug tugged sob sobbed
bag bagged nag nagged jam jammed
tap tapped rip ripped cap capped
11Nonsense Words (from Phonics Pathways, 10th Ed., 2011)
Feck Feek Nesk Putchy
Bot Bole Papsy Dafe
Motchy Fosy Fossy Leze
Resk Meetch Tash Wike
Dush Dake Yunch Rute
Denk Goosh Lon jate
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Vowels!
Let’s refer to the vowel handouts• Many conventions of organization
• Variation in dialects
• What conventions are worth teaching students? • “Long Vowels” / “Short Vowels” • Diphthongs • “r” colored vowels
• Water / standard • Reduced vowels
• About / synthesis / harmony / medium / decimal / syringe
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Vowels with Communicative Meaning
(Celce-Murica; Brinton; Goodwin; 2011, pg. 151)Ahhh! (satisfaction) Aw. (sympathy)Ow! (pain) Oh? (interest)Oh. (comprehension) Uh-Oh (trouble) Ew! (disgust) Oops! (mistake)Aha! (discovery)Huh? (confusion) Boo! (frightening someone) Uh-uh. (no) Uh-huh. (yes)
By the way, I’ve never seen so much interest spark in a class as when “Onomatopoeia” came up and we visited Wikipedia’s list of English words. Phew!
14Spelling Conventions with Vowels + Morphemes
Short-vowels must always have TWO consonants before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel, to keep the short-vowel sound.
Long-vowel words need only one.
(from Phonics Pathways, 10th edition, 2011)
LongShort
- ed -ing -er
Hope Hoped Hoping Hoper
Hop Hopped Hopping Hopper
Bake Baked Baking Baker
Back Backed Backing Backer
Comparatives (and Superlatives)15
(+) r Double the consonant + er*short V*
(+) er
*short/long V*
- (y)+ (ier)
+ more
*syllables*
Irregular forms
Larger Redder (Reddest)
Smaller(Smallest)
Heavier(Heaviest)
More (most) expensive
Better (best)
Looser Hotter (Hottest)
Richer(Richest)
Friendlier(Friendliest)
More (most) important
Worse (worst)
Nicer Thinner (Thinnest)
Younger(Youngest)
Spicier(Spiciest)
More (most) comfortable
Tamer Fatter (Fattest)
Greener(Greenest)
Healthier(Spiciest)
More (most) convenient
Large Red Loose Hot Small ExpensiveNice Heavy Tame Good ConvenientTame Fat Thin Green Healthy ComfortableNice Bad Rich Young Friendly Spicy
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The Balance
• Imbedding these activities into current curricula • Developing a phonics based course that builds on presented skills. • Creating linguistic knowledge with terminology if it makes sense for
your population • Creating games w/ flash cards, colored cards, wall space, etc.
• Your own ideas!
Happy to send you a copy of my slides and resources or answer other questions.
Questions?